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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 7 cms) inscr. on plate b.c. "Who this can view yet feell no kindling fire / Need keep no Lent to mortifie desire."; inscr. on plate b.l. "Lucas Jordanus Neopolitanus pinx:"; inscr. on plate b.r. "I. Smith fec & exc." CRE SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) AFTER GIORDANO, Luca; (Italian; 1632-1705) 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.
A satyr watches the Roman goddess of love lying on a couch with a child, attended by a maid. The print is after a work by contemporary Italian painter Luca Giordano who was one of the most revered painters of the Neopolitan Baroque with an international reputation. | 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: | ALLEGORY : GREEK MYTHOLOGY : VENUS : SATYR : DESIRE : MAID : LOVE : CUPID : EROS : AMOR : NUDE : BED : DECORATIVE PRINT : 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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