Virgin with the bleeding Cheek — engraving

'Virgin with the bleeding Cheek, as she is worshiped in the Sunday Gate at the Extremity of the Twerschaia, in Moscow'.

This is the so-called Iviron, or Iverskaya, type of Hodegetria icon. Legend says that the bleeding mark on Mary's face was left by a sword of an iconoclast in IX-century Nicaea. This copy of the Iverskaya icon was displayed in Moscow at the Resurrection Gate.

Edward Daniel Clarke. Travels in various countries of Europe Asia and Africa. Part the First Russia Tartary and Turkey (1810).

Technique, Material: Copper engraving / Paper
Artist:  E. D. Clarke, Engraver:  
Date: Published Nov. 25., by T. Cadell & W.Davies, London, 1809.
Size:  cm.