Abraham and Sarah
Series TitleThe History of Abraham
Artist
Georg Pencz
(German, 1500 - 1550)
Dateca. 1543
MediumEngraving
DimensionsPlate: 1 15/16 × 3 1/4 inches (4.92 × 8.26 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell
Object number56-126/40
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition History[No known exhibitions at this time]
Robert B. Fizzell (1889-1978), Kansas City, MO, by December 14, 1956;
Given by Robert B. Fizzell to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.Adam Bartsch, Le Peintre-graveur, vol. 8 (Vienna: Joseph Vinzenz Degen, 1803-21),
no. 1, p. 321, as L’histoire d’Abraham
(Suite de cinq pièces): Sara présentant Agar à Abraham que l’on voit assis à
gauche.
Paul Landau, Catalogo completo dell’opera grafica di
Georg Pencz, trans. Anthony Paul (Milan: Salomon e Agustoni, 1978), no. 1.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO:
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 301, as Abraham
and Sarah, ca. 1543, from The History
of Abraham.
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