A drawing of the heads and shoulders of a group of figures: prominent in the foreground is a woman, in profile to the right, with a drapery over her head; to her right are two bearded men, one in profile to the right and the other full face. To the left are a number of other figures, among which is a woman wearing a turban, looking over her shoulder to the left.

After a drawing by Guercino or a member of his School, though no such drawing is so far known. It is conceivable that the subject may be the Virgin and her family in a scene related to her marriage.

Etched in reverse by F. Bartolozzi (Boydell, I, 29; Calabi 2150)

The Italian engraver and draughtsman Francesco Bartolozzi met the Royal Librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, who was in Italy to find works to buy for George III's collection. Dalton persuaded him to come to England in 1764, where he was appointed Engraver to The King and became a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. Over the next forty years Bartolozzi was widely admired for the prints he made after drawings by Guercino, Holbein and Michelangelo in the Royal Collection, his engravings after his contemporaries Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Benjamin West and Angelika Kauffmann, and the prints he made for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. He was also known as the leading exponent of the stipple manner technique, often using brown, red and ochre coloured inks.