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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 7 cms) inscr. on plate b.c. "Delineatio CRUCIFIXAE in Cappella Senenifsce. ac Ptentifsce. Princ. ac Domce. DNce. / CATHARINAE M.Brit. Gall. et Hib Reginae Viduce, Natce Princ. R. Portugall &c. / IPSI REG. MAJESTATI SUAE quam homillime dedicata ab Is: Beckett."; inscr. on plate b.l. "A van Dyck p:"; inscr. on plate b.c. "I. Smith ex."; inscr. on plate b.r. "I:B:fe"; inscr. on page t.r. hand-written in brown ink "13" CRE BECKETT, Isaac; (English; 1653-1688) AFTER DYCK, Anthony van, Sir; (Flemish; 1599-1641) PUB SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) Part of William Hunter's original bequest, this is one of three volumes which together contain 488 mezzotints, almost all made or published by John Smith. About two thirds are portraits of eminent late Stuart, early Hanoverian persons. The remaining third are subject prints after a wide range of artists and subjects, from mythological and religious scenes after old Italian and Dutch and Flemish masters such as Titian and Rubens to fancy subjects after contemporary French and English painters.
Instrumental in raising the standard of mezzotint portraits, Smith was the first British printmaker to gain a European reputation, and examples of his work were essential for any serious first half of the 18th century European print collection. Hunter's set of volumes is a rare surviving example of a comprehensive collection of mezzotints compiled in the 1730s.
This depiction of angels collecting the blood of the crucified Christ after the highly regarded Anthony van Dyck was a popular print. It was made by Smith's teacher Isaac Beckett, many of whose plates Smith bought and republished after his death. Smith's own version of the print is also in the volume (Glaha 16613) as well as a third by an unidentified engraver, all grouped together towards the front of the volume. | 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: | BIBLE : NEW TESTAMENT : CHRIST : CROSS : DEATH : PASSION OF CHRIST : CRUCIFIXION : SKULL OF ADAM : PUTTI : ANGEL : CUP : CHALICE : THE LAST SUPPER : BLOOD : HUNTER 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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