Jacob Allowing Benjamin to Go to Egypt with His Brothers

1722

Sir James Thornhill

Artist, British, 1675 - 1734

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and gray ink with gray-brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.5 x 17 cm (8 1/16 x 6 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.235

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York: Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 172 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in pen and brown ink: J. Thorhill 1722

Wikidata ID

Q64631940

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