Saul Prophesying (Compositional Study for "Saul Before Samuel and the Prophets")
Benjamin West, American, 1738 - 1820
about 1812
Pen and brown ink (probably iron gall ink) on wove paper
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 9 1/16 in. (14 × 23 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
D.962.85
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Publication History
Robyn Asleson and Shelley M. Bennett, British Paintings at The Huntington, New Haven, Connecticut and London: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in association with Yale University Press, 2001, 568 pp., ill. p. 502.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 249.
Provenance
Collection of H. H. Margary; Sotheby's, London, Sale October 25, 1961, lot 21; purchased by Agnew's; sold to Alan Gallery, New York, March 19, 1962; sold to present collection, August 1, 1962.
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