The Sacred Egyptian Bean, 1804

  • Burke, English
  • Lewis, English
  • Dr. Robert John Thornton, 1768-1837

Color aquatint and stipple with hand coloring on wove paper

  • Image: 18 1/8 × 15 inches (46 × 38.1 cm) Sheet (trimmed): 21 3/4 × 16 7/8 inches (55.2 × 42.9 cm)

Gift of Gilbert Hudson

F1985.17

Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Henderson. pinxt. Inscribed, lower center: The Sacred Egyptian Bean | London, Published Decr. 1, 1804, by Dr. Thornton. Inscribed, lower right: Burke & Lewis sculpt.

Joseph L. Hudson, Sr. Gilbert Hudson

1985-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Dunthorne, Gordon. Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Washington, D. C., 1938, p. 125 (ill.), p. 251.

Burke; Lewis, The Sacred Egyptian Bean, 1804, color aquatint and stipple with hand coloring on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Gilbert Hudson, F1985.17.