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Abraham Casting Out Hagar

(Netherlandish, 1571–1631)
(Dutch, about 1564–1651)
1603
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsPlatemark: 46.9 × 36.1 cm (18 7/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 48.2 × 37 cm (19 × 14 9/16 in.)
Credit LineHarvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession numberP7345
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in margin below image, lower left: Gen. XXI/Dum petulans Dominæ non insultare veretur, / Cum nato Jussa est vertere serva solum.; lower right: Rupert. in Gen./Sic, Christo, Christique gregi dum illudere certant/Judæos meritò par quoque pæna premit. SHS [monogram]
ProvenanceReverend John Burleigh James (b. 1811 - d. 1891; Lugt 1424), Knowbury Park, Shropshire, England; 1877, his sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, London, lot no. 3192. Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York;1897, purchased by the MFA. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)