Study with five shepherds

A study showing five beggars, all barefoot, infirm or resting, leaning over large sacks; after Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

Etching and mezzotint, 1765, lettered below the image with production details.

From Tome I of Charles Rogers 'A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings to which are annexed lives with explanatory and critical notes by Charles Rogers Esq. F.R.S. S.A.L. / Quantanus nobis denegatur diu viver relinquamus aliquid quo nos vixisse testemur. Plin. Lib. III.. Epist. 7 / Printed by J. Nicholls, Successor to Mr Bowyer & Sold by John Boydell, Engraver, No. 93, Cheapside. Benjamin White, at Horace's Head, Fleet-Street. Peter Molini, in Oxendon-Street, Hay-Market M.DCC.LXXVIII'.

The plates were engraved after drawings in major British collections, including Charles Rogers' own, and published in two volumes in London. 

A very good impression on contemporary laid paper, with margins, a light foxing, otherwise in good condition.