Essay towards a catalogue of prints engraved from the works of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez and Bartolomé Estéban MurilloPrivately Printed for Sir W.S.M., 1873 - 137 pages |
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Aguado Alabern armour Austria Baptist and Lamb beneath Blanc Cean Bermudez cherubs child standing collection Count-Duke of Olivares cross Don Balthazar Carlos Duke engraved Etch Francis of Assisi Full length Geoffroy Goya Half-length hand head holding Holy Family Hospital of Charity Houghton Gall illust Immaculate Conception Imperial Gallery Infant Don Balthazar Infant Saviour Inscr Jameson John Baptist John Young Joseph with Infant Joyas knee Kneeling Lady and St Lady with Infant Lebrun Leuchtenberg Line Lith Litho Llanta London Lord and St Louvre Madrid Male Dwarf Marin Lavigne Marshal Soult Mary Magdalene Maurin Mezzo Miles Gall Munich Murillo Musée Chrétien Outline oval frame Painters palm branch Paris Peintres Philip Philip IV picture was formerly picture was painted Piloty plate Pope Innocent X portrait Reveil et Duchêsne reversed Rosary Royal Gallery Royal Museum Salvador Carmona Scott seated shepherd Stip Stirling Three-quarters length Unknown Velazquez Villafranca Wood
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Page xi - A Set of Prints engraved after the most Capital Paintings in the Collection of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress of Russia, lately in the possession of the Earl of Orford, at Houghton in Norfolk.
Page 37 - It is now in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, England.
Page 30 - No. 3oo, where it was erroneously called the portrait of Velazquez, a mistake which the numerous engravings will perpetuate. It was sold in London in 1853 with the rest of the Spanish collection of the ex-King Louis Philippe. Man.
Page 35 - Coria, a laughing idiot ; in a green dress ; seated on the ground, with h1s hands clasped on one of his knees ; at his side two gourds and a drinking cup. Engraved by L.
Page 10 - Carderera at Madrid ; another was in that of the late Lord Cowley. They were supposed by their possessors to be the only impressions in existence. A third was purchased by CM in London at a sale of Spanish engravings, at Messrs.
Page 10 - CM in the Royal Gallery of Engravings at Berlin, a double one, ie a black impression on one side of the paper, and a red impression on the other.
Page 3 - Formerly in the collection of the Count Aguila, at Seville, and afterwards in the Louvre. . The picture is now in the National Gallery, London.
Page 81 - Paris ; bought from the latter by the late Sir Simon Clarke, to whom it was valued, with its companion, " The Good Shepherd," at 4,000 guineas, and purchased at the sale of his pictures in 1840, for .£2,100.
Page 27 - The picture probably existed in Spain at end of last century, but its present place has not been ascertained. Velazquez.
Page 7 - ... various pieces of armour on the ground at his feet. The picture is at Madrid, Royal Museum, No. 63.