Claude Lorrain "Abraham alungand pe Hagar si Ismail" gravura veche 1734

Prints in Imitation of Drawings

• Object type

  • print

• Museum number

  2006,U.1108

• Title (series)

  • Prints in Imitation of Drawings

• Description

  Landscape with Abraham expelling Hagar and Ishmael (Genesis, XXI, 9-19), record of painting in Alte Pinakothek, Munich, from the Liber Veritatis; figures standing outside a classical building, Abraham seen pointing to landscape with herd of cattle at right; after Lorrain. 1734
  Etching with woodcut from two blocks in grey ink

• Producer name

  • After: Claude Lorrain 
  • Print made by: Arthur Pond 

• School/style

  • French
  • British

• Date

  • 1734

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • woodcut 
  • etching 

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Lettered within image at bottom with production detail: "Claudio. delin.", "AP. [monogram] 1734", then owner of the original drawing: "E Museo Dñi. Ricardi Houlditch."

• Curator's comments

  For other impressions, see 1977,U.438; 2006,U.1113; 1936,1116.2126.47. For the original drawing, see 1957,1214.179. For the series, see comment in 1936,1116.2126.1.

• Bibliography

  • Hake 1922 17 
  • Liber Veritatis 1978 173 (after) 
  • Roethlisberger 1968 976 (after) 

• Location

  Not on display (British XVIIIc Unmounted Roy)

• Subjects

  • old testament

• Associated names

  • Associated with: Richard Houlditch 

• Acquisition date

  1753-2006

• Acquisition notes

  There was no registration number on this object, hence the new U number was given when catalogued.

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  2006,U.1108