RUNCIMAN Alexander

Alexander Runciman and John Runciman. EXPO SALES CATALOGUE

Runciman & Ossian Works

RUNCIMAN PICTOR - portrait 1785

ALEXANDER RUNCIMAN ( 21.4.1736 or 15.8.1736 - Edinburgh - 21.10.1785 )

RARE SET OF ETCHINGS - Posthumously printed and published in London (1826) by John Kay .Welbeck Street ,Cavendish Square.London

JOHN RUNCIMAN ( Edinburgh 1744 - 1768 Napoli ) Preparatory Drawing or Painting for etchings in corporation with his brother Alexander.

Nagler lists only 2 (10) and Le Blanc only 6 (10)

cf. SAUR AKL BBI ,Thieme-Becker etc.

cf. Grant,Mallalieu,McEwan,Waterhouse 18th. century

cf. BASSENGE SALE 76

cf. HAUSWEDELL & NOLTE SALE 371 (Illustration of Le Blanc 5)

cf. PRINT COLLECTION UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS.AUSTIN.TEXAS

cf. YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART. EXHIBITION 1979

The Fusely Circle in Rome. Early Romantic Art of the 1770s

Catalogue by Nancy L. Pressly

Item Nr. 8, Illustration, Fig. p.12

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ALEXANDER RUNCIMAN ETCHINGS

Le Blanc 1 Nagler 1 Polygraphicum1Runciman.jpg Le Blanc 2 Nagler 2 Polygraphicum2Runciman.jpg

La Nymphe se préparant à entrer au bain Une Femme affligée,assise devant une table ( Sigismonde et Tancrède)

cf. RUDOLPH WEIGEL CATALOG VON KUNSTSACHEN.LEIPZIG:F:A:BROCKHAUS 1838 p.49 No.9b,9c

Both Signed ARunciman inv. & fecit bottom left respectively bottom right side. n.p.n.d.

Average size:c 130x90 mm..Japan paper.Cut to platemark or slightly within platemark

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Le Blanc 3 Nagler unknown

Polygraphicum3Runciman.jpg

Une Femme affligée assise à terre , la tête appuyée sur la main droite

Kleopatra ( Ariadne)

Signed ARunciman fecit in the plate bottom left.n.p.n.d

Average size: c. 100x150 mm.Japan paper.Cut to platemark or slightly within platemark

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See for this Topos:

Literally Concepted in - Catullus Ode 64

Original Painting-Print-Marble Sculptures etc. - Antique Statue of Ariadne in the Vatican - famous Galleria delle Statue

1795 Painting by Vicenzo Feoli after Francesco Miccinelli

1772 Angelika Kauffmann Portfolio of Italian Engravings 1772 - so called MORLEY- ALBUM.SALTRAM

Acquired by John Parker . 1st Baron Boringdon. 1772 and since that time in the Library of Saltram.

Exlibris with the Coat of Arms of John 2nd Lord of Boringdon (1772-1840) 1st Earl of Morley

The Morley-Collection (The National Trust) Inventary N° SAL/Books/Vol. 234 ; Vol. 239

Scuola di Caracci e altri autori - Autori Bolognes (i) e Lombardi

10 volumes of prints

Lit.: ANGELIKA KAUFFMANN - RETROSPEKTIVE -

KUNSTMUSEUM DÜSSELDORF-HAUS DER KUNST MÜNCHEN-KUNSTMUSEUM CHUR 1999

Catalogue Illustration 23, 98. and Articles 55-57

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ALEXANDER RUNCIMAN RADIERUNG ALEXANDER RUNCIMAN RADIERUNG

Le Blanc 4 Nagler unknown Polygraphicum4Runciman.jpg Not listed by Le Blanc and Nagler Polygraphicum5Runciman.jpg

Une Femme désespérée,les mains croisées

Mythological Moonlight Scene Agrippina & Germanicus

Signed A.Runciman inv. in the plate bottom left. n.p.n.d Signed AR invenit.in the plate bottom left n.p.n.d.

Average size: 140x835 mm.Dito Average size:135x105 mm.Dito

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See for this Topos (Woman and Urn):

Friederike Brun ,born Münter 'Neue Gedichte' Darmstadt 1812 Frontipiece .Engraving by L.Schnell after Angelica Kauffmann

This engraving now entitled generally as 'Die Trauernde'

cf. 'Agrippina with the ashes of Germanicus' by A.Runciman, illustration in wikipedia

Germanicus is Nero Claudius Drusus, brother of Imperator Tiberius,

entitled as Germanicus by the Roman Senate.

He died at age of 33 in Epidaphne near Antiochia.His ashes were taken to Italy by Agrippina.

The annexed verses are:

Edle mit bebendem Arm ach hälst(sic) Du alles umschlungen / Was vom Geliebten Dir,was von Germanicus blieb /

All' ach halten wir so die Urne des Lebens umfangen / O wem liesse die Zeit mehr noch als Asch und als Staub.....

The preparatory drawing of 1803 is bound into Friederike Brun Book of Genealogy . Museum Kopenhagen

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ACQUAFORTE.EAU-FORTE.ETCHING.RADIERUNG

Mythological Moonlight Scene in [Meditarranean?] Landscape

FINGAL finds CONBAN-CARGLAS

From Ossian's Poems.Edinburgh.1762

Le Blanc unknown Nagler unknown

Signed AR fecit in the plate bottom left.n.p.n.d.

Average size: 152x247 mm Dito

Reference Literature

Exhibtion Catalogue:Nancy L. Pressly, The Fusely Circle in Rome.Early Romantic Art of the 1770s.Yale Center for British Art, 1979, No.8,Fig.p.12

...This, Runciman's most impressive etching from the series, offers some sense of the dramatic power of his imagery and shows the integral part landscape played in establishing the mood of his pictures...

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Polygraphicum6RuncimanOssianPenicuik.jpg

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ALEXANDER RUNCIMAN ETCHING

Not listed by Le Blanc and Nagler

Polygraphicum7Runciman.jpg

Classical Warrior with Sword ( Scene from Ossian or Shakespeare Storm ?)

Signed ARunciman inv. & fecit in the plate bottom center.n.p.n.d.

Rest of description or somewhat signature illegible in the plate bottom right

Average size: 75x130 mm.Dito

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ACQUAFORTE.EAU-FORTE.ETCHING.RADIERUNG

Le Blanc 5 Une Scène mythologique Nagler unknown

Polygraphicum8Runciman.jpg

Athena und Perseus bei Enthauptung der Medusa

Athena helps Perseus to kill Medusa

Average size: 165x 261 mm.Dito

cf. HAUSWEDELL & NOLTE .HAMBURG SALE 371 (Illustration plate 104)

cf. BASSENGE .BERLIN SALE 76

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ALEXANDER RUNCIMAN

ACQUAFORTE.EAU-FORTE.ETCHING.RADIERUNG

ALEXANDER RUNCIMAN ( 15.8.1736 - Edinburgh/Scotland - 21.10.1785 ) & JOHN RUNCIMAN ( Edinburgh 1744 - 1768 Napoli )

Le Blanc 6(?) Netherbow Port,vue d'Edinbourg .Nagler unknown Polygraphicum9A&JRunciman.jpg

PERSEUS RETURNS TO MYCENAE WITH ANDROMEDA, WHO BECAME RESCUED BY HIM

(?Another Scene from the Life of Holy Ste. Margret Queen of Scotland as Pendant to the following etching by Alexander Runciman)

Signed AR in the plate bottom left. Signed J.Runciman inv. in the plate bottom right

Average size: 220x187 mm.Dito

This etching documents the cooperation of Alexander Runciman and his brother John Runciman

Alexander Runciman was a painter and etcher.His Paintings are collected in the National Gallery of Scotland.Edinburgh Etchings and Drawings by his hand are collected in the British Museum.London and the National Gallery of Scotland.Edinburgh

For Alexander Runciman as an etcher see:

The Connoisseur 72 (1925 ) 122,127 (Illustration)

The Print Collectors Quarterly 16 (1929) 270 (Illustration),271

John Runciman was a historical and portrait painter .He accompanied his brother on a journey to Rome in 1766

where they joined Henry Fuessly between 1766-1771

Paintings by John Runciman are collected in the National Gallery of Scotland.Edinburgh

John Runciman activities as Etcher see:

A.S.Lumsden The Art of Etching 1925, p.192/96

Print Collectors Quarterly 12 (1925), p.15

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