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Description: | IH s. on plate b. r. "Guercino del. R.D. sculp."; inscr in pencil along edge outside plate b. r. "58" CRE DALTON, Richard; (English; 1715-1791) AFTER GUERCINO, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, (Italian; 1591-1666) PUB DALTON, Richard (1715-1791) This volume is part of William Hunter's bequest. The prints were commissioned by Richard Dalton, Librarian to George III, in the 1760s. They focus on the King's unrivalled collection of more than 800 drawings by Guercino, largely assembled by Dalton on visits made to Italy to enrich his royal patron's art holdings. The volume promoted the Royal Collection and served the market for prints after Guercino who was particularly popular among eighteenth-century English connoisseurs. While most were etched by Bartolozzi, hailed as Italy's best engraver, Dalton did etch seven of the plates himself. His prints are inferior to Bartolozzi's.
Unconnected with any known painting, this drawing depicts the story of Tobias and the angel from the Apocryphal book of Tobit. Blinded whilst digging graves, Tobit lost his livelihood and fell into poverty until he remembered that he had previously left a deposit of silver at a place called Rages. He sent his son Tobias to fetch it along with a companion who was later revealed to be the Angel Raphael. The Angel Raphael came to represent a guardian angel for travellers, a concept that became very popular in Renaissance Italy and many paintings around this subject were commissioned. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | TOBIAS : WINDSOR : DRAWING : IMITATION : ANNA : ANGEL : OLD TESTAMENT : RELIGIOUS : HUNTER VOLUME : ROYAL COLLECTION : TOBIT : BAROQUE : APOCRYPHA : : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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