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ARCHANGEL GABRIEL c. 1765 Robert Strange Guido Reni ANTIQUE ETCHING

Head and shoulders, looking to left with head tilted upwards, pointing upwards with left hand. Print by Sir Robert Strange (1721 – 1792). Born in Kirkwall, Orkney, Strange was apprenticed to Richard Cooper, the Edinburgh engraver. An ardent Jacobite, he joined the 1745 Rising and went into exile after the defeat at Culloden. He married [Continue]