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Venus Presenting Armour to Aeneas.
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. [n.d., c,1770].
Rare mezzotint. Platemark: 345 x 250mm. (13½ x 9¾"). Some light stains and marks in large margins. Small stain in left middle of the print.
Venus appearing in a chariot drawn by cupids among clouds, addressing Aeneas who stands in a forest, pointing to left at a suit of armour piled against a tree. They are both watched by a river God reclining at the edge of the scene on the right. After Italian baroque artist Pietro Testa.
[Ref: 29119] £320.00
La Présentation de la S.te Vierge au Temple. Tableau de la Galerie impériale de St. Pétersbourg. Dédié à sa Majestié Catherine II. Impératrice de toutes les Russies, Par son très .humble très obeissant et très Soumis J. Trible.
Peint par Pietro Testa. et Dessiné par B.N. Le Sieur. Gravé par G.F. Schmidt, Graveur du Roy à Berlin 1771.
Engraving. 600 x 404mm (23½ x 16"). Creasing in title area, small tears in small margins.
40 days after giving birth to Jesus, the Virgin Mary, presented herself in the Temple in Jerusalem to be ritually cleansed after childbirth.
[Ref: 54677] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
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