JOHN
Arts, etc., i. 248; Clement, 222, 376; Heaton, 248.
JOHN BAPTIST, ST., BIRTH OF, Lodovico Carracci, Bologna Gallery; canvas, H. 12 ft. 11 in. × 8 ft, 1 in. Engraved by G. Wagner; G. Tomba. Pinae. di Bologna, Pl 44.
By Tintoretto, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; canvas, H. G ft. 1 in. × 8 ft. 9 in. St. Anne presents the child to a nurse; in background, St. Elizabeth in bed is taken care of by an attendant woman ; to right, Zacharias, who raises his eves to heaven.
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St. John Baptist on Jordan, Nicolas Poussin, Lovre.
JOHN BAPTIST, ST., HEAD OF, Ma-rillo. Leigh Court Collection, Somerset, England; canvas, H. 2 ft. × 2 ft. 5 in. The
bearded head in a charger, placed on a table
covered with drapery. Etched by J. Young
in Miles Gallery Catalogue. Curtis, 250.
JOHN BAPTIST, ST., AND LAMB, Murillo, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville; wood, H. 2 ft. 9 in. × 2 ft. The child St. John, standing front, his left hand, holding a cross and scroll, on the back, and his right hand on the breast of a lamb which stands by his side. Painted for Hospital about 1G74. Engraved by A. Boilly.- Curtis, 244.
By Murrillo, National Gallery, London;
canvas, H. 5 ft. 5 in. × 3 ft. 7 in. About six years old, in sheepskin garment, standing front, embracing a lamb which stands on a rock; his left hand on back of lamb, fore-finger pointing upward; on ground, a cross and a scroll; background, a hilly landscape with trees. Companion to Christ the Good Shepherd (Baron Rothschild), which see for history. Repetitions: Earl of Lovelace, East Horsley Towers, Surrey; Dudley House, London. Copy by Tobar in S. Isidore, Seville; contemporary copy in Hermitage. Engraved by F. Bacon, L. Stocks, A. H. Payne, J. Rogers, J. Stow, Casenave, and others.—Curtis, 245; Notes and Queries, S. G, iv. 427; Portfolio, 1876.
By Murillo, Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 5 f t. × 3 ft. 6 in. The child, cross in left hand, standing front, with right hand on lamb standing by his side. Engraved by J. Blaschke (2), P. Gleditsch; etched by W. Unger, Prenner.— Curtis, 246; Gal. de Vienne; Gemälde Gal. in Wien.
JOHN BAPTIST, ST., ON JORDAN, Lodovico Carraci, Bologna Gallery; canvas, H. 11 ft. 6 in. × 6 ft. 8 in. St. John, in a wood, on the banks of the Jordan, preaching. Formerly in church of the monastery of the Certosa, Bologna. Engraved by G. Wagner; F. Rosaspina.—Pinac. di Bologna, Pl. 47; Lanzi, iii. 70.
By Nicolas Poussin, Louvre; canvas, H. 3 ft. × 4 ft, St. John, standing on the bank of the river, is baptising two men who kneel before him; at one side, a woman, kneeling, presents her infant; at the other, men removing their garments; further back, three old men and a young man on horseback looking on; on the other side of the river, a bark; in background, mountains. Painted in 1640 for Chevalier Cassiano del Pozzo, whence
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