Inscribed in pen and ink on the verso: Incise da Guido Reni sui disegni di Lodovico Caracci nei funerali di Agostino Caracci.

Literature: B.56;

                 T.I.B. Vol. 40, Com. Part 1, 05.021.

Very good impression, with margins all around.

From the series of seven plates from Il Funerale d'Agostino Carraccio fatto in Bologna sua patria dagli'Incaminati Accademici del Disegno, published in Bologna in 1603 by Vittorio Benacci.

Each of the five numbered scenes is after a picture by a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, displayed during the memorial festivities for Agostino Carracci, held the 18th of January 1603 in the Chiesa dell'Hospital dela Morte in Bologna.

1. Virtue vanquishing Envy and Fortune, after Giulio Cesare Parigino; 2. Apollo and the Muses at the tomb of Agostino Carracci, after Luigi Valesio; 3. Allegorical Representation with the Consterllation of the celestial chariot, the emblem of Agostino Carracci, after Aurelio Benelli; 4. Personification of Painting being comforted by Poetry, and the personification of a river at right, after Lodovico Carracci (not described by Bartsch); 5. Knowledge and Vigilance chasing Envy from Heaven, after Lorenzo Garbieri.