Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

The painting by Domenichino on which this print is based is held in the collection of the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA.

Joseph Powell, watercolour painter and printmaker, was probably a pupil of topographical artist and printmaker Benjamin Thomas Pounce. Powell first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1796. He was connected with Michael ‘Angelo’ Rooker and published an engraving after Rooker’s drawing of Netley Abbey in 1800. Powell also etched engravings after works by Old Masters. In 1810, he made a series of soft ground etchings of scenes in Egypt. By this time he was living in Old Cavendish Street. He moved twice before settling at Allsop’s Buildings, between Baker Street and Regent’s Park. In 1831, he became the President of the newly established New Society of painters in Watercolours. He died in 1834, leaving a wife, Harriet, and eight children.

Places

Subjects

vase (as Subject), townscape/cityscape, tree, woman, jug, New Testament, stone wall, path, well

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Domenichino (1581 - 1641)
Joseph Powell (1780 - 1834)

Title

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Date

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from the Parker Gallery, January 1978

GAC number

13708