Abraham Dismissing Hagar

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Artist Robert Strange, Artist
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Abraham Dismissing Hagar

1767

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Artist) Italian, 1591-1666 Robert Strange (Artist) English, 1721-1792

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

Plate: 15 3/4 × 19 1/4 inches (40 × 48.9 cm) Sheet: 17 3/4 × 21 1/8 inches (45.1 × 53.7 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1127

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Inscribed, in plate, lower right: R. Strange Bononiae delint,, Ao. 1763, Atque Ao. 1767 Aere incidit Inscribed, left center of bottom margin: Abram ancillam Agar dimittit. | Ad exemplar Tabulae a Jo,, Fra,, Barbieri, Guercino dicto, pictae, quae Bononiae, in Aedibus Zamperianis asservatur. Inscribed, right center of bottom margin: Abraham giving up the hand maid, Hagar | From the Painting of Jno,, Fra,, Barbieri, call'd Guercino, in the Zampieri Palace at Bologna. Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: 1911 Inscribed, lower right corner: hddh

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June 1885, N. C. Perkins. 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Le Blanc, C. Manuel de L'Amateur d'Estampes. Paris, 1854-1888, no. 1.

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Robert Strange; after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Abraham Dismissing Hagar, 1767, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1127.

Abraham Dismissing Hagar
Abraham Dismissing Hagar