Hagar, Ishmael and the Angel (after Jean-Baptiste Michel after Pietro da Cortona)
Josiah Boydell (Hawarden 1752 – Halliford 1817)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1785
Materials
paper
Measurements
430 x 530 mm
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286379
Summary
Engraving, Hagar, Ishmael and the Angel (after Jean-Baptiste Michel after Pietro da Cortona) by Josiah Boydell (Hawarden 1752 – Halliford 1817). 1785. 'Hagar' is written above the margin inscription with Lord Grosvenor's arms in the centre. The picture shows an angel communicating with a woman who is seated on the ground with a boy beside her. Landscape setting.
Marks and inscriptions
HAGAR (Lord Grosvenor's arms between a and g)
Makers and roles
Josiah Boydell (Hawarden 1752 – Halliford 1817), engraver (printmaker) Jean-Baptiste Michel (Paris 1748 – 1804), engraver (printmaker) after Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 - Rome 1669), artist