Stefano MULINARI (Florence 1741ca - 1790ca) "surgical operation" Original etching and aquatint by a subject by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri known as il Guercino (Cento 1591 - Bologna 1666). Beautiful specimen printed with a magnificent inking in delicate shades of red on laid paper with "Flute in a circle" and "AFC" countermark not found in the consulted repertoires, with a light browning area on the high edge and in the right corner but in the complex in excellent general condition. The panel comes from one of the editions of the collection entitled "Original drawings of excellent painters existing in the Royal Gallery of Florence engraved in copper with imitation of sizes and color in watercolor pen and pencil" published by Scacciati for the first time in Florence in 1766 and then on various other dates with notable extensions and the collaboration of his best pupil Stefano Mulinari. This collection was conceived and produced in handouts of ten tables each as it appears from a news item published in issue 15 of the "Gazzetta Toscana" published on April 13, 1771 and in which it reads "Mr. Andrea Scacciati skilled copper engraver and pensioner of SAR Our Sovereign in continuation of his commendable enterprise has given out the sixth series of the Drawings of the most famous Painters, which are kept in this Real Gallery. Each series of this valuable collection contains ten Drawings and is worth a Florentine sequin, and is dispensed at the shop of Iacopo Carlieri Libraio and by Mr. Scacciati himself .. ". The original drawing by Guercino is present in the collections of the Uffizi Cabinet of Drawings and Prints with the inventory number 808E. In the sheet the drawing is described as follows "Dis 808 Franc. ° Barbieri called il Guercino Surgical operation An old bearded man with a cap on his head in the act of putting an iron in the arm of a naked young man, lying from left to right, supported by a other youthful figure with cap on his head. Red pencil in b.ca paper ". Bibliography: "Gazzetta Toscana" Florence 1771 No. 15. Giglioli "Tuscan engravers of the eighteenth century" Florence 1943 pag.28. LeBlanc "Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes" Paris 1856 vol.3 pag. 62 n ° 100. Regnault-Delalande "Catalog raisonné d'un choix précieux de dessins et d'une nombreuse et riche collection d'estampes anciennes et modernes .. here composoient the cabinet de feu Pierre-François Basan .." Paris 1797-98 n ° 777. http://euploos.uffizi.it/inventario-euploos.php?aut=Barbieri+Giovan+Francesco+detto+Guercino Measures in mm: 505 x 400