About the Artwork
Adam and Eve in Paradise
1815
J. Evans and Son
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English
Unknown
Engraving in black, colored by hand
Image: 13 1/8 × 18 1/8 inches (33.3 × 46 cm) Sheet: 16 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches (41.9 × 54.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Jerome I. Smith
F81.337
This work is in the public domain.
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Inscribed, in plate, center bottom margin: ADAM AND EVE IN PARADISE | [2nd line is largely illegible quotation from Genesis, chapter 3, Now the serpent was more subtle then any beast... of the trees in the Garden] Inscribed, lower right: Published June [illegible] 1815 by J. Evans and Son, No. [illegible] Long Lane, Smithfield.
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Jerome Irving Smith
1981-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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J. Evans and Son, Adam and Eve in Paradise, 1815, engraving in black, colored by hand. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Jerome I. Smith, F81.337.
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