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Christ Showing a Little Child as the Emblem of Heaven

Artist Benjamin West (American ; 1738-1820)
Date1794
DimensionsOverall: 23 1/16 x 17 15/16 in. (58.5 x 45.5 cm)
frame: 24 5/8 x 28 1/2 in. (62.5 x 72.4 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PAINTING
Credit LineGift of Dr. Robert Erwin Jones, Class of 1952
Terms
  • Christ
  • children
  • interior
Object number84.33.2
Catalogue raisonnéStaley & Von Erffa #327
Inscribedl.r. in oil: B.West/ 1794; verso c.l. on frame: [fragment of a letter, written by West?]
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