Jacob Burying Laban's Images
Object Details
- engraver
- Earlom, Richard
- original artist
- Bourdon, Sebastien
- publisher
- Boydell, John
- Description
- Mezzotint with etching and stipple engraving after painting by Sebastien Bourdon once in the Cabinet at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. Marsh probably wrote the numeral 42 in pencil in the lower left margin.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Marsh Collection
- 1785
- ID Number
- 1978.0534.03.44
- accession number
- 1978.0534
- catalog number
- 1978.0534.03.44
- Object Name
- mezzotint with etching
- Object Type
- Mezzotint
- Physical Description
- ink (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 43.5 cm x 52 cm; 17 1/8 in x 20 15/32 in
- plate: 41.75 cm x 50.25 cm; 16 7/16 in x 19 25/32 in
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Marsh Collection
- Religion
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Animals
- Record ID
- nmah_784903
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-e82d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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