Stefano MULINARI (Florence 1741ca - 1790ca) "Madonna and Child on the Half Moon" Original etching and aquatint from a subject by Giovanni Mont known as the Roman, later identified as Hans Mont (Ghent 1545ca - after 1585) mannerist sculptor and architect who collaborated in Italy with Giambologna of which he was a pupil. Beautiful specimen printed with a magnificent inking in delicate shades of brown on laid paper with "Flute in a circle" and "AFC" countermark not found in the consulted repertoires, with good margins beyond the imprint of the plate, with a print fold central vertical but overall 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 design is present in the collections of the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints of the Uffizi with the inventory number 14220F and the description is as follows: “On the left, the Virgin seated on the Half Moon, with S. Baby on her lap, in the middle St. John and St. Elizabeth kneeling on the right two angels all in adoration ". 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. Thieme - Becker "Allgemeines Lexicon der bildenden Kunstler" Leipzig sd vol.XXV page 74. http://euploos.uffizi.it/inventario-euploos.php?aut=Mont+Giovanni+detto+il+Romano Measures in mm: 378 x 507