The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 209
Those who heheld the original picture in the exhibition,some years since, will recollect the marked and vigorousexpression of Belisarius. The hero seems sensible of thehorror of his situation, but, superior to all danger, re-tains his presence of mind. The group projects from abright and luminous… … Enamved !»• Oetyrve Cooke. OFFERING TO ESCULAPIUS. GUERIN. The artist has borrowed the subject of the picturebefore us from an IdylHum of Gessner. Two young men conduct their father, greatly ener-vated by disease, towards the statue of Esculapius. Theirsister, in the bloom of youth and beauty,…
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