About the Artwork
Christ Weeping over Jerusalem
19th century
Charles Lock Eastlake (Artist) English, 1793-1865 Waterman Lilly Ormsby (Artist) American, 1809-1883
Engraving printed in black on wove paper
image: 14 1/8 x 20 in. 35.8 x 50.8 cm sheet: 17 x 22 in. 43.1 x 55.8 cm
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Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund
F72.283.274
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
In plate above the image, center: To the Subscribers of the Christian Parlor Magazine; lower left: Painted by C.L. Eastlake, R.A.; lower right: Engraved on steel by W.L. Ormsby, 116 Fulton St. N.Y.; center bottom margin: CHRIST WEEPING OVER JERUSALEM. / Jerusalem, Jerusalem: how often would I have gathered my children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings: and ye would not,".
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Kennedy Gallery and Edith Cole Silberstein
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Waterman Lilly Ormsby; after Charles Lock Eastlake, Christ Weeping over Jerusalem, 19th century, Engraving printed in black on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.274.
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