Smith, John: A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters: in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England; a reference the the galleries and private collections in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools (Part 7) (London: Smith and Son, 1836)

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Fancy and Familiar Subjects.
166. The enraged Prisoner. The subject is said to repre-
sent Adolphus, grandson of the Prince d’Egmont, who was
imprisoned by order of the Duke of Burgundy, for a con-
spiracy against his own father, whom he had previously con-
fined. The prisoner, who is richly dressed, is looking up with
fury in his countenance at an old man, who is seen at a little
window above (this is supposed to be his father), against whom,
with clenched fists, he is vowing revenge. Dated 1637.
Engraved in the Musees Frangais; and also by Berdini,
Schmidt, and in reverse in mezzotinto by Leader, 1765.
Exhibited in the Louvre in 1814. Claimed and restored in
1815, and now in the Musee at Berlin.
5 ft. 8 in. by 4 ft. 10 in.—C.

167. A Duplicate of the preceding is in the Musee at
Dresden.
Daniel Berger, jun., has engraved the same subject, with the
introduction of two negros behind the prince, under the title
of Samson in the Prison House at Gaza.

168. A Woman weighing Money. The picture represents
a woman of middle age standing at a covered table, weighing
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money ; with one hand she is raising the scales, and in the
other she holds a piece of money ready for weighing.
Engraved by Riedel, and described from the print.
The same subject is engraved by W. Baillie.

169. The Theologians. Two venerable men seated at a
large covered table, on which are a number of books. Their
expression and gestures denote them to be discussing some
abstruse subject. The one nearest the spectator, seen in a