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Description: | volume inscr outside plate t. c. "XV"; inscr on plate b. l. "Salvator Rosa Pinxt."; inscr on plate b. r. "Rob.tus Strange delint. et Sculpt. Londini"; inscr in pencil on plate under engraver's name "GS"; inscr on plate b. c. "Belisarius / From the Original Painting of Salvatore Rosa, in the Collection of the Right Hon.ble the Lord Viscount Townshend. / Sold at the Golden Head, in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden" AFTER ROSA, Salvator; (Italian; 1615-1673) CRE STRANGE, Robert, Sir; (Scottish; 1721-1792) The volume was bound by J. Carss & Co., book binders active in Glasgow in the early 19th century, and described by Dibdin as "the favourite bookbinder among the cognoscenti at Glasgow".
This print reproduces faithfully, in reverse, one of Rosa's best known and most impressive painting. At the time the print was made, the picture was the proud centerpiece of the Belisarius Chamber of Lord Townshend at Raynham Hall, Norfolk, where it was singled out for praise by Horace Walpole. General Flavius Belisarius (505 - 565) was a Byzantine general and leading military figure in the age of Justinian I (527-565). He led imperial armies against the Sasanian empire (Persia), the Vandal kingdom of North Africa, the Ostrogothic regime of Italy, and the barbarian tribes encroaching upon Constantinople. According to legend, Justinian, jealous of his popularity, later had him blinded and forced to beg before pardonning him because of public outrage. | 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: | BELISARIUS : ROMAN HISTORY : PAINTING : ESSEX : VOLUME : SUBLIME : BLINDNESS : WARRIOR : ROMAN : ANCIENT : SCOTT VOLUME : | 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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