Christ healing the Impotent Man at the Pool of BethesdaNow there is at Jerusalem by the Sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, having five porches. John c5, v2.
Sebastianus Ricci, pinxt. J.M. Liotard, sculpt.
London, Published by Freeman & Co No. 95, corner of Beaufort Buildings, Strand, Ap.l 1 1792
Rare engraving, sheet 530 x 425mm (21 x 16¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Reissue of a plate first published c.1735-43, as part of a set of eight engraving after Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734) in the collection of Joseph Smith., English collector and patron based in Venice who also had a long association with Canaletto. By the time this plate was published in 1792 the painting was already in the Royal Collection, where it remains to this day (although it currently hangs at Osterley). One of few prints after Ricci, an itinerant Italian artist whose career took him all over Europe, including time spent in England.
[Ref: 38592] £200.00
London, Published by Freeman & Co No. 95, corner of Beaufort Buildings, Strand, Ap.l 1 1792
Rare engraving, sheet 530 x 425mm (21 x 16¾"). Trimmed to platemark.
Reissue of a plate first published c.1735-43, as part of a set of eight engraving after Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734) in the collection of Joseph Smith., English collector and patron based in Venice who also had a long association with Canaletto. By the time this plate was published in 1792 the painting was already in the Royal Collection, where it remains to this day (although it currently hangs at Osterley). One of few prints after Ricci, an itinerant Italian artist whose career took him all over Europe, including time spent in England.
[Ref: 38592] £200.00