Good etching on watermarked paper. With lettering (G.F.B.Inv. / G.Penna F. Parigi). Plate 8: Landscape with three figures and two dogs running in the foreground; two figures observing a fallen obelisk in the middle distance and other figures standing near ancient ruins: one standing on a block; a ruined building in the middle distance, with figurative frescoes; buildings in the background. Published by: Tomasso Colli Curator's comments Between 1672 and 1674 Guercino's nephew Cesare Gennari sent fourteen landscape drawings from Bologna to his brother Benedetto, who was then in Paris, in order for them be engraved by Jean Pesne. Once the fourteen copper-plate had been completed, they were sent to Bologna for Cesare to provide the serie with a frontispiece (1858,1112.128); see: Mahon, Catalogo dei disegni, 1968, p. 179; Bagni, Il Guercino e il suo falsario, 1985, pp. 58- 59; Turner, Plazzotta, Drawings by Guercino from British Collection, 1991, p. 193. The original drawings is now in Chatsworth, inv. no. 540; see: Bagni, Il Guercino e il suo falsario, 1985, no. 98-99. Bibliographic references Robert-Dumesnil 1835-71 / Le Peintre-Graveur Français (159) (British Museum) Condition is fair. Diffuse foxing. Several folds. Brown stain at 3 o'clock. Foxing. Yellowing paper. Water stains.