Bust of a young woman holding an open book, reading, from a series of twenty-two engravings after Guercino's drawing book, Book on the Principles of Drawing, plate 18
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Series of twenty engravings after Guercino's Libro dei disegni
Artist: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)|Oliviero Gatti|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi
Artist bio: Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna|Italian, active Bologna 1610–30|Italian, Rome 1627–1691 Rome
Artist role: Artist|Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: Italian|Italian|Italian
Date: 1619
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Mount: 7 7/8 × 20 3/8 in. (20 × 51.8 cm)
Sheet: 6 × 8 3/8 in. (15.2 × 21.3 cm)
Plate: 5 13/16 × 8 1/4 in. (14.7 × 21 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession year: 1953