The Virgin Motioning to a Young St. John the Baptist to Be Silent as The Christ Child Sleeps: Seventy-three prints engraved by F. Bartolozzi &c. from the Original Pictures and Drawings of Michaelangelo, Domenichino, Annibal, Lodovico, and Agostino Carraci, Guercino, P. da Cortona, Carlo Maratti, Elisabetta Sirani, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Franceschino &c. in the collection of His Majesty, &c., vol. II
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: John Boydell|Josiah Boydell|Francesco Bartolozzi|Annibale Carracci
Artist bio: British, Dorrington, Shropshire 1720–1804 London|British, Hawarden, Flintshire 1752–1817 Middlesex|Italian, Florence 1728–1815 Lisbon|Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome
Artist role: Publisher|Publisher|Artist|Artist
Artist nationality: British|British|Italian|Italian
Date: 1793–98
Medium: Engraving, printed in brown ink; third state of three (De Vesme & Calabi)
Dimensions: Sheet: 20 5/16 × 13 3/4 in. (51.6 × 35 cm)
Plate: 14 13/16 × 20 13/16 in. (37.7 × 52.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Accession year: 1966