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The image shows an engraving portraying a scene from a raised perspective. Various elements like leafy plants, a ladder, farm equipment, two figures in historical attire, a wooden house with a thatched roof, birds in flight, and silhouettes of structures and trees are depicted in rich detail. The use of intricate lines and shading creates texture and depth in the grayscale composition.
National Gallery of Art · Print
Abraham Casting Out Hagar
Jacob Matham, after Abraham Bloemaert
- Date
- 1603
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 46.5 x 36 cm (18 5/16 x 14 3/16 in.) sheet: 47 x 36 cm (18 1/2 x 14 3/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2012.92.561
- Credit line
- Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
- Time span
- 1601 to 1650
- Department
- CG-E
Provenance
Pierre Mariette [1634-1716], Paris (Lugt 1789). Nicola Francesco Haym or N. Hillier? (Lugt 1972/Lugt 1974). George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer [1758-1834], Althorp (Lugt 2341a). (Artemis Fine Arts Limited, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased July 24, 1986; Gift to NGA, 2012.
Inscription
in image, at bottom right: Cum privil. Sa. Cae. M. / Abrahamus Bloemaert Inven. I. Maetham Sculp. / et excudit Ao, 1603; below image: Dum petulans Dominae non insultare veretur, / Cum nato Iussa est vertere serva solum. / Sic, Christo, Christique gregi dum illudere Certant, Iudaeos meritò par quoque paena premit. SHS; below image, at left: Gen. XXI; below image, at centre: Rupert. in Gen.
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