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Description: | volume inscr outside plate r. c. "XXIV"; inscr on plate b. r. "'R. Strange delint,, Ao. 1762, Atque Ao. 1767 Aere incidit"; inscr on plate b. c. "inscr on plate b. r "Esther a Suppliant before Ahasuerus / From the painting of Jn Fra Barbieri call'd Guercino, in the Barberini palace in Rome"; inscr on plate b. l. ditto in latin; inscr on plate in pencil under engraver's name "GS" CRE STRANGE, Robert, Sir; (Scottish; 1721-1792) AFTER GUERCINO, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, (Italian; 1591-1666) 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".
Esther faints into the arms of her tearful maids before Ahasuerus. Guercino's painting is now in the University of Michigan Museum of Art. | 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 : PERSIA : KING : ESTHER : SWOONING : AHASUERUS : TURBAN : XERXES : 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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