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The Prodigal Son amid the Swine,

Engraving on laid paper

Print impression quality: Not strong, inking defect upper right

Dimensions (Plate): 248 x 189 mm (9.8 x 7.4 in.)

Signed in plate, lower center: monogram

Accession number: 1938.D1.13

Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1938

Bibliography: Bartsch 28; Joseph Meder 28b no burr, fewer scratches, not glossy ink of early impressions; Campbell Dodgson 10; P. 135; D’Oench, Prodigal Son Narratives 1480–1980 (New Haven and Middletown, CT: Yale University Art Gallery and Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, 1995), cat. no. 2, pp. 4–7.

Work Type: print

Keywords: Click a term to find other records with the same keyword.

• religious art
• religions
• parables
• Bible
• New Testament
• Prodigal Son
• animals
• swine

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