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Description: | volume inscr outside plate t. c. "XXI"; inscr on plate b. l. "Guido Reni Pinxit / Amoris Primitiae / Ex Picta Tabula Guidonis Reni, quae est apud Robertum Strange."; inscr on plate b. r. "Robus Strange delineavit et sculpsit. / The Offspring of Love. / From a Painting of Guido Reni, in the Possession of Rob Strange."; inscr in pencil on plate under engraver's name "GS" CRE STRANGE, Robert, Sir; (Scottish; 1721-1792) AFTER RENI, Guido; (Italian; 1575-1642) 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".
The Virgin Mary contemplates the infant Jesus who sleeps on a large cushion with a tassel, her hands joined in prayer, looking at Him out of the corners of her eyes, from the left. It is companion to Cupid Sleeping. The Hunterian has a copy of the painting after which Strange engraved this print( Guido Reni's Virgin and the Sleeping Child of 1627, now in the Galleria Doria Pamphili, Rome), see GLAHA 43789. | 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: | LOVE : ALLEGORY : REPRODUCTIVE : CHILD : CHRIST : VIRGIN : MOTHER : INTERIOR : RELIGIOUS : 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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