Abraham Dismissing Hagar, 1767

  • Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Italian, 1591-1666
  • Robert Strange, English, 1721-1792

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 15 3/4 × 19 1/4 inches (40 × 48.9 cm) Sheet: 17 3/4 × 21 1/8 inches (45.1 × 53.7 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1127

Inscribed, in plate, lower right: R. Strange Bononiae delint,, Ao. 1763, Atque Ao. 1767 Aere incidit Inscribed, left center of bottom margin: Abram ancillam Agar dimittit. | Ad exemplar Tabulae a Jo,, Fra,, Barbieri, Guercino dicto, pictae, quae Bononiae, in Aedibus Zamperianis asservatur. Inscribed, right center of bottom margin: Abraham giving up the hand maid, Hagar | From the Painting of Jno,, Fra,, Barbieri, call'd Guercino, in the Zampieri Palace at Bologna. Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: 1911 Inscribed, lower right corner: hddh

June 1885, N. C. Perkins. 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Le Blanc, C. Manuel de L'Amateur d'Estampes. Paris, 1854-1888, no. 1.

Robert Strange; after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Abraham Dismissing Hagar, 1767, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1127.