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Object Number

G4403

People

Robert Dunkarton, British (1744 - before 1817)
After John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)

Title

Abraham's Sacrifice

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1797

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/275485

Medium

Mezzotint on paper mounted on canvas

Technique

Mezzotint

Dimensions

sheet: 67.7 x 51 cm (26 5/8 x 20 1/16 in.)
plate: 66.7 x 50.2 cm (26 1/4 x 19 3/4 in.)
framed: 74.9 × 57.8 × 3.2 cm (29 1/2 × 22 3/4 × 1 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of Gardiner Greene

Accession Year

1818

Object Number

G4403

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 130, Plate 66; p. 28, pp. 37-38 as part of Fig. 28 in Ethan W. Lasser's "Harvard's Teaching Cabinet"; p. 59 in María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui's "A Repository of Gifts"

The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2017 - 12/31/2017; The Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, 04/17/2018 - 07/15/2018

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