- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- G4403
- People
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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
- Date
- 1797
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/275485
- Physical Descriptions
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- 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.)
- Provenance
- Gardiner Greene, gift; to Harvard University, 1818
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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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- Publication History
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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"
- Exhibition History
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