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REMBRANDT VAN RHYN.
New Testament Subjects.
persons, and in the distance is seen a castle. Engraved by
11. Houston, from a picture then in the collection of J. Black-
wood, Esq. The same subject is also etched by Livens.
81. Christ blessing the Children. “ Then were there brought
“ unto him little children, that he should put his hands on
“ them and pray/'’ The Saviour is here represented sitting on
the left, taking a child affectionately by the arm, and putting
his hand on its head: while the mother of the infant stands
by with a babe in her arms, viewing with emotions of pleasure
the tender scene: beyond these are several persons pressing
forward, among whom is one anxiously holding up a child for
the Saviour to notice. Engraved by Hess, from a picture in
the collection of Count Schonborn, at Vienna. The above
description is taken from the print.
7 ft. 2 in. by 5 fl.— C.
82. Christ with his Disciples at Sea, in a Storm. This
picture represents the moment when the disciples, alarmed at
the imminent danger in which they appear to be, have awakened
their Lord, and, under the influence of fear, impetuously
demand, “ Carest thou not that we perish ?” The artist, in
pourtraying the subject, has sought only to embody the expres-
sion which such an event would naturally excite in the human
breast, combined with the natural causes of such effects ; indif-
ferent, therefore, to the correctness of the architecture of the
ship, he has contented himself with one resembling those of
his own country’s coasters (carrying a main and a jib sail),
which is thrown on the crest of a mighty wave, so as to show
the whole of the deck. The Saviour, clad in a purple
mantle, is seen near the helmsman, still leaning on his pillow,
and looking calmly up at his disciples, three of whom, in con-
REMBRANDT VAN RHYN.
New Testament Subjects.
persons, and in the distance is seen a castle. Engraved by
11. Houston, from a picture then in the collection of J. Black-
wood, Esq. The same subject is also etched by Livens.
81. Christ blessing the Children. “ Then were there brought
“ unto him little children, that he should put his hands on
“ them and pray/'’ The Saviour is here represented sitting on
the left, taking a child affectionately by the arm, and putting
his hand on its head: while the mother of the infant stands
by with a babe in her arms, viewing with emotions of pleasure
the tender scene: beyond these are several persons pressing
forward, among whom is one anxiously holding up a child for
the Saviour to notice. Engraved by Hess, from a picture in
the collection of Count Schonborn, at Vienna. The above
description is taken from the print.
7 ft. 2 in. by 5 fl.— C.
82. Christ with his Disciples at Sea, in a Storm. This
picture represents the moment when the disciples, alarmed at
the imminent danger in which they appear to be, have awakened
their Lord, and, under the influence of fear, impetuously
demand, “ Carest thou not that we perish ?” The artist, in
pourtraying the subject, has sought only to embody the expres-
sion which such an event would naturally excite in the human
breast, combined with the natural causes of such effects ; indif-
ferent, therefore, to the correctness of the architecture of the
ship, he has contented himself with one resembling those of
his own country’s coasters (carrying a main and a jib sail),
which is thrown on the crest of a mighty wave, so as to show
the whole of the deck. The Saviour, clad in a purple
mantle, is seen near the helmsman, still leaning on his pillow,
and looking calmly up at his disciples, three of whom, in con-