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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This painting and its pair, Jesus Betrayed were commissioned as part of a London based publishing venture by Thomas Macklin, begun c. 1790 and completed in 1800. Macklin employed twenty different artists and fifteen different engravers to translate their work into engraving for his six volume Holy Bible. De Loutherbourg's dramatic compositions illustrate the beginnings of the Romantic movement in Britain. | Subjects: | religion (Christ at Emmaus) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Loutherbourg, Philip James de (French painter and scenographer, 1740-1812, active in Great Britain) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9160... | Go to resource |
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