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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Agrippina Mourning the Ashes of Germanicus]](jpegs/68643.jpg)
[Agrippina Mourning the Ashes of Germanicus]
AR [monogram of Alexander Runciman]
[n.d. c.1760]
Fine & rare etching, 18th century watermark,140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼), with large margins.
Death of Germanicus Julius Caesar (15 BC–AD 19): Agrippina the Elder (14 BC–AD 33), seated in profile to the left on a stool, holds an urn inscribed with his name upon her lap; at left, a servant stands weeping with her eyes covered by her hand, while Gaius (better known as Caligula) (AD 12–41) beside her looks up at Agrippina. In AD 19, Germanicus died of a mysterious illness in Antioch, Syria, after accusing Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso of poisoning him. Agrippina, devastated and suspicious of murder, transported his ashes back to Rome herself. An etching by Scottish artist Alexander Runciman (1736-1785) one of the earliest exponents of original etching in Scotland.
[Ref: 68643] £350.00
AR [monogram of Alexander Runciman]
[n.d. c.1760]
Fine & rare etching, 18th century watermark,140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼), with large margins.
Death of Germanicus Julius Caesar (15 BC–AD 19): Agrippina the Elder (14 BC–AD 33), seated in profile to the left on a stool, holds an urn inscribed with his name upon her lap; at left, a servant stands weeping with her eyes covered by her hand, while Gaius (better known as Caligula) (AD 12–41) beside her looks up at Agrippina. In AD 19, Germanicus died of a mysterious illness in Antioch, Syria, after accusing Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso of poisoning him. Agrippina, devastated and suspicious of murder, transported his ashes back to Rome herself. An etching by Scottish artist Alexander Runciman (1736-1785) one of the earliest exponents of original etching in Scotland.
[Ref: 68643] £350.00
![[Musidora Disrobing]](jpegs/68644.jpg)
[Musidora Disrobing]
ARunciman ['AR' in monogram] inv: & fecit.
[n.d. c.1760]
Fine & rare etching, 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾"), with very large margins.
In a woodland setting, Musidora bathes at the water’s edge, seated on the bank and drawing her robe from her left leg, crossed over her right, while Damon watches from behind a bush in the right background. Musidora Disrobing" (or Musidora undressing near stream) is a popular 18th and 19th-century artistic theme, often painted or etched by artists like Angelica Kauffman (1782) and Alexander Runciman, depicting the character Musidora from James Thomson’s (1700–48) poem "Summer" (from The Seasons (1730)) undressing to bathe while being watched by her lover, Damon. An etching by Scottish artist Alexander Runciman (1736-1785) one of the earliest exponents of original etching in Scotland.
Catalogue raisonné Nagler 1.
[Ref: 68644] £350.00
ARunciman ['AR' in monogram] inv: & fecit.
[n.d. c.1760]
Fine & rare etching, 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾"), with very large margins.
In a woodland setting, Musidora bathes at the water’s edge, seated on the bank and drawing her robe from her left leg, crossed over her right, while Damon watches from behind a bush in the right background. Musidora Disrobing" (or Musidora undressing near stream) is a popular 18th and 19th-century artistic theme, often painted or etched by artists like Angelica Kauffman (1782) and Alexander Runciman, depicting the character Musidora from James Thomson’s (1700–48) poem "Summer" (from The Seasons (1730)) undressing to bathe while being watched by her lover, Damon. An etching by Scottish artist Alexander Runciman (1736-1785) one of the earliest exponents of original etching in Scotland.
Catalogue raisonné Nagler 1.
[Ref: 68644] £350.00
![[Marriage of St Margaret and King Malcolm of Scotland.]](jpegs/68642.jpg)
[Marriage of St Margaret and King Malcolm of Scotland.]
AR [monogram of Alexander Runciman] Pinxit & ficit.
[n.d c.1760.]
Rare & fine etching, 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"), with very large margins.
A scene showing the marriage of King Malcolm (c.1031–1093) and Saint Margaret (c.1045–93), Malcolm is shown placing a ring on Margaret's finger while the ceremony is presided over by a bishop, members of the court gather around them in the church. An etching by Scottish artist Alexander Runciman (1736-1785) one of the earliest exponents of original etching in Scotland.
[Ref: 68642] £320.00
AR [monogram of Alexander Runciman] Pinxit & ficit.
[n.d c.1760.]
Rare & fine etching, 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"), with very large margins.
A scene showing the marriage of King Malcolm (c.1031–1093) and Saint Margaret (c.1045–93), Malcolm is shown placing a ring on Margaret's finger while the ceremony is presided over by a bishop, members of the court gather around them in the church. An etching by Scottish artist Alexander Runciman (1736-1785) one of the earliest exponents of original etching in Scotland.
[Ref: 68642] £320.00