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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 7 cms) inscr. on plate b.c. "Hagar and Ishmael Genes. 21"; inscr. on plate b.l. "T. Peminscr. on plate b.r.ooke. Pinx."; inscr. on plate b.r. "I. Smith fec et exc:"; inscr. on page t.r. hand-written in brown ink "46" CRE SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) AFTER PEMBROKE, Thomas; (English; 1662-1690) 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.
Depicted is the biblical story from Genesis. An angel appears to Hagar in the desert where she has fled with her son Ishmael after her mistress Sarai mistreated her, jealous of her for bearing her husband's child. Smith has reproduced a painting by Thomas Pembroke, an English painter who trained after Marcellus Laroon who was also a mezzotint engraver and whose work is represented in this volume (Glaha 16728). | 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 : OLD TESTAMENT : GENESIS : BANISHMENT : ABRAHAM : HAGAR : ISHMAEL : DESERT : BOTTLE : ANGEL : ARCHANGEL MICHAEL : 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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