Print made by George Graham, active 1786–1813, Elkanah, Hannah and Samuel, 1815
- Title:
Elkanah, Hannah and Samuel
- Date:
- 1815
- Medium:
- Mezzotint (proof without letters) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 20 3/4 × 25 5/8 inches (52.7 × 65.1 cm), Plate: 18 7/8 × 22 5/8 inches (47.9 × 57.5 cm), Image: 17 1/4 × 21 1/2 inches (43.8 × 54.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left:: "o/a"; lower center: "19 3/8 / 23 1/8 | No.8 | 772394"; lower right: "Proof | 4a Un de | A "
Lettered below image, lower left: But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him , that he may appear"; lower right: "before the LORD, and there abide for ever. And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good;-1st Samuel, Chp 1 verse 22 &23."; lower center: "ELKANAH, HANNAH, AND SAMUEL. | LONDON: PUBLISHED MAY 1st. 1815, by BOYDELL & Co. 90 CHEAPSIDE."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.705
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- belt | Bible | birth and childhood of Samuel (1 Samuel 1-2:21) | cape | chair | cloak | cloud | cow | cradling | curtain | drapery | father | feather | field | gesturing | herd | hill | horse (animal) | husband | infant | jewel | mother | pillar | religious and mythological subject | Samuel growing up in the temple of Shiloh | sitting | sleeping | son | story of Samuel | temple | tree | turban | wife
- Associated People:
- Hannah, one of the wives of Elkanah mentioned in the First Book of Samuel. According to the Hebrew Bible she was the mother of Samuel
Elkanah, husband of Hannah, and the father of her children including her first, Samuel
Samuel - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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