Jacob Burying Laban's Images
date: label: date made
content: 1785
name: label: engraver
content: Earlom, Richard
label: original artist
content: Bourdon, Sebastien
label: publisher
content: Boydell, John
notes: label: Description
content: Mezzotint with etching and stipple engraving after painting by Sebastien Bourdon once in the Cabinet at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. Marsh probably wrote the numeral 42 in pencil in the lower left margin.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Animals
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Marsh Collection
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content: Religion
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Marsh Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0534.03.44
label: accession number
content: 1978.0534
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0534.03.44
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: mezzotint with etching
label: Object Type
content: Mezzotint
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 43.5 cm x 52 cm; 17 1/8 in x 20 15/32 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 41.75 cm x 50.25 cm; 16 7/16 in x 19 25/32 in