Sir Robert Strange

Laomedon, King of Troy, Detected by Neptune and Apollo

Sir Robert Strange's original engraving, Laomedon, King of Troy, Detected by Neptune and Apollo is based upon a design created by the 17th century Italian artist, Salvadore Rosa. Here a myriad of meticulously wrought lines combine to create an image of unforgettable force and clarity. Printed in 1775, on thick eighteenth century hand-made, laid paper and with margins trimmed slightly beyond the plate-mark. Laomedon, King of Troy, Detected by Neptune and Apollo is a fine, original example of the famous engraved art created by the British artist, Sir Robert Strange.

Original Line Engraving by the British artist, Sir Robert Strange.

Laomedon, King of Troy, Detected by Neptune and Apollo

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Title:	Laomedon, King of Troy, Detected by Neptune and Apollo
Engraver:	Strange, Sir Robert (Pomona, Orkney, Scotland, 1721 - London, 1792)
Designer:	Rosa, Salvador (Arenella, 1615 - Rome, 1673)
Date:	1775
Medium:	Original Line Engraving
Note:	"Strange's prints are austere and high minded, yet their silvery tones, and delicate lines coursing round the turn of an arm or a face, are often of some beauty in their clarity of exposition. Strange believed that the elevated nature of his subjects should be translated with a probity of technique that expressed both moral and formal beauty. To Strange, as to Blake, the lower status of stipple engraving or mezzotint lay not merely in their greater ease of execution, but in their intrinsic inferiority of modeling with dots, or scraping out highlights, to incising a clear and expressive line." *
	Sir Robert Strange: Originally intended for a career in law, Sir Robert Strange studied art for six years in Edinburgh, under Richard Cooper. With the arrival of the Civil War Strange joined the Jacobites and fought in their defeated ranks at the battle of Culloden. He then escaped to France and completed his studies in Paris under the engraver, J. P. Le Bas. Robert Strange returned to London in 1751and (along with William Sharp and William Wollett) established himself as one of England's greatest eighteenth century engravers.
	In both his art and his writings, Robert Strange stood in opposition to a number of contemporary trends in British art. During the mid and latter eighteenth century most of Britain's etchers and engravers were producing prints in the tonal mediums of stipple or mezzotint. A powerful master of the engraved line, Strange's art was more akin to the great seventeenth century French line engravers, such as Nanteuil and Masson. As well, Strange had little regard for engraving after the designs of his contemporaries and held the work of the old masters of the Renaissance and Baroque periods as the highest form of art. In this regard he left for Italy in 1761 and spent four years there where he made drawings of many of the celebrated pictures. In that time he was also elected a member of the academies of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Parma and Paris.
	During his career Sir Robert Strange created slightly over eighty original engravings after the art of Vandyck, Correggio, Titian, Rosa, Raphael and others. In 1787 he was knighted by King George III. Strange was the only British engraver to receive such an honour in the eighteenth century.
	Laomedon, King of Troy, detected by Neptune and Apollo is a spectacular example of Sir Robert Strange's engraved art. Here a myriad of meticulously wrought lines combine to create an image of unforgettable force and clarity.
Reference:	* Richard T. Godfrey, Printmaking in Britain, Oxford, Phaidon Press Ltd., 1978, p. 46.
Size:	17 1/4 X 13 3/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed on thick eighteenth century hand-made, laid paper and with margins trimmed slightly beyond the plate-mark. Containing several small, marginal tears which do not intrude into the actual image, else a beautifully printed impression bearing all the fine lines of an early printing. Laomedon, King of Troy, Detected by Neptune and Apollo represents a prime, original example of the famous engraved art of Sir Robert Strange.
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