Core Record |
| Title |
Peasants Escaping Banditti |
| Collection |
Salford Museum and Art Gallery |
| Artist |
Aglio, Agostino (Italian painter and scenographer, 1777-1857, active in Great Britian) |
| Date Earliest |
about 1750 |
| Date Latest |
about 1820 |
| Description |
Within a wooded landscape women and children are depicted fleeing a burning city. One woman helps another woman carrying a baby up a grass embankment in the centre foreground as other figures follow closely behind. This story is frequently associated either with the Biblical flight from Sodom or with the flight of the defeated Trojans from the burning city of Troy but nothing in this picture indicates either literary context. |
| Current Accession Number |
1867-8 |
| Subject |
landscape; figure (women and children) |
| Measurements |
74 x 97 cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Given by J. B. Smith M.P. 1867. |
| Rights Owner |
Salford Museum and Art Gallery |
| Author |
Lisa Howard |
