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The Prodigal Son. The Return.
Alexandre Bida1874
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: The Prodigal Son. The Return.
- Creator: Possibly by Alexandre Bida
- Date Created: 1874
- Subject Keywords: American Studies, animals, birds, cattle, dogs, Prodigal Son, religions
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed or inscribed in block, lower left: “Bida”; signed or inscribed in block, lower right: “Hovenden C. Madran DEL”[?]; printed below image: “THE PRODIGAL SON. THE RETURN. SEE PAGE 159.”; adhered to back page of issue: small piece of colored paper printed “316 W G Atwater Jun 74” [distributor or retailer’s stock-aging slip?]
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Weedon Endowment funds, 2001
- Materials & Techniques: Wood engraving on wove paper. Watermark: No watermark
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Front cover illustration for “The Illustrated Christian Weekly” (New York: American Tract Society) vol. 4, no. 14, Saturday 4 April 1874; publication editor Lyman Abbott; in DAC Collection with complete issue as image context, including part two of a retelling by Rev. William Arnott of the prodigal son story, p. 159
- Dimensions: 1895
- Associated People: Possibly by Alexandre Bida (French, 1823-1895)
- Accession Number: 2001.14.6
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