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Description: | volume inscr outside plate r. c. "XXIII"; inscr on plate b. r. "R. Strange Bononiae delint, Ao. 1763. Atque Ao. 1767 Aere incidit"; inscr on plate b. c. "Abraham Giving up the Hand Maid Hagar / From the painting of Jno, Fras, Barbieri, call'd Guercino, in the Zampieri Palace at Bologna."; inscr in pencil on plate under engraver's name "GS"
CRE STRANGE, Robert, Sir; (Scottish; 1721-1792) AFTER GUERCINO, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, (Italian; 1591-1666) AThe 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".
Abraham sends away Hagar and her son Ishmael, with Sarah turning her head to hear the dismissal. Guercino's painting is now in the Brera Museum, Milan. | 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: | OLD TESTAMENT : RELIGIOUS : REPRODUCTIVE : GENESIS : PATRIARCH : TEAR : BANISHMENT : ABRAHAM : TURBAN : ISHMAEL : SARAH : 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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