A catalogue of engraved portraits, topographical drawings and prints, coins, gems, autographs, antiquities, and works of art, exhibited at the opening of the New Library and Museum of the Corporation of London, November, 1872 / edited by W.H. Overall ; with an historical account of the ancient and modern library at Guildhall by W. Sedgwick Saunders.

  • Guildhall Library (London, England)
Date:
1872
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Credit: A catalogue of engraved portraits, topographical drawings and prints, coins, gems, autographs, antiquities, and works of art, exhibited at the opening of the New Library and Museum of the Corporation of London, November, 1872 / edited by W.H. Overall ; with an historical account of the ancient and modern library at Guildhall by W. Sedgwick Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pictures (continued):— 10. Jan Asselyn.—Landscape. The environs of a Dutch town on the banks of a river, with labourers excavating for fortifications or the dykes of a canal. 11. Vandyck.—Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria when young, in a white satin dress. 12. Paris Bordone.—Mars armed by Mercury and Bellona. The Mars is believed to be a portrait of Ottavio Farnese. 13. Claude Lorraine.—Landscape, with the Flight into Egypt. 14. DoMENico Theotocopulo, called *' II Greco. Christ driving the Money Changers out of the Temple. 15. Garofalo.—Saint Christopher carrying the Infant Saviour. A fresco sawn from the wall and transferred to canvas. 16. Fra Bartolommeo.—The Virgin and Child, and Saint Elizabeth. Painted in the year 1516. Signed and dated by the Painter. 17. Andrea del Sarto.—Holy Family, The Virgin and Child, and St. Joseph. 18. Velasquez.—Portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria, second wife of Philip IV. of Spain : probably painted immediately after her marriage. 19. Metzu.—The Toilet. 20. RursDAEL.—View in the Environs of Haerlem. 21. Gerard Douw.—Interior, with an old woman combing the head of a boy. 22. Adrian Van de Vei.de.—Pastoral Landscape, with cattle and a shepherd washing his feet in a stream. 23. John Van Eyck.—The Holy Women visiting the Sepulchre after the Resurrection.