The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlotsy, 1814

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Medium

hand-colored engraving on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 31.75 × 24.45 cm (12 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.)

sheet: 36.67 × 27.94 cm (14 7/16 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.592

Artists / Makers

Amos Doolittle (artist) American, 1754 - 1832

Shelton & Kensett (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left corner in graphite by unknown hand: 10

text at bottom in plate:
A. Doolittle / The PRODIGAL SON revelling with HARLOTS / He wasted his Substance with Riotious Living. / published and Sold by Shelton & Kensett, Cheshire, Con. October 24. 1814. / St. Luke 15. Chap. 13. V.

Marks and Labels

(partial Indiana map on verso)

Provenance

(Kennedy & Co., New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Kennedy Galleries

Exhibition History

1981: Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981