Father's day gift ideas!
It's Father's day Sunday, 18th June so let us inspire you with some ideas below! For the classics scholar Depictions of the faithful son Aeneas and his father: Eneas carrying his Father Anchyses from the Ruins of Troy. From the Original Picture, Painted by Jacopo Robusti commonly called Tintoretto, In the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Size of the Picture, 1' 0" by 1' 4" in height. Tintoretto pinx.t R. Earlom delin.t & Sculpsit John Boydell excudit London 1767 Mezzotint with etching, 330 x 230mm. 13 x 9". Large margins; creasing through centre Aeneas carrying his father away from Troy before beginning the journey that will lead to the foundation of Rome. Illustration to an episode featuring in Virgil's 'The Aeneid'. From "The Most Capital Paintings in England", a series of engravings in five volumes produced in late 1760s-1786, the first three (1769 to ...