Children attending the birth of Christ. Stipple engraving by G.S. and J.G. Facius after Josiah Boydell after J. Reynolds.

  • Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.
Date:
Sept.r 1st 1785
Reference:
2804073i
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Description

Night. Left, a young woman and two children, posed in different forms of contrapposto; one of them holds a torch. Right, a shepherd boy with a spaniel next to fallen columns and a Corinthian capital

Publication/Creation

London (in Cheapside) : John Boydell engraver, Sept.r 1st 1785.

Physical description

1 print : stipple engraving ; image 54.5 x 38.2 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Drawn by Josiah Boydell. Engraved by G.S. & J.G. Facius

References note

David Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: a complete catalogue of his paintings; the subject pictures catalogued by Martin Postle, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, p. 549 no. 2111 (left half) and 2112 (right half)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2804073i

Reproduction note

After: two paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds for the west window of the chapel of New College Oxford (Mannings loc. cit.)

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