Dalziels' Bible Gallery - Naomi and the Child Obed1863 – 1881 Accession number: 1920P713.1.57 Wood engraving on India paper, in bound volume. Width: 126 mm Height: 159 mm InformationThis is one of several versions by Solomon of a scene from the Old Testament Book of Ruth (IV, 14-17). The scene depicts Ruth with her mother-in-law, Naomi, and son, Obed, David's grandfather. It is based on the lines:'The child will be a comfort to you and the prop of your old age, for he has been born to the daughter-in-law who loves you and is more to you than seven sons." And Naomi, taking the child, held him to her breast; and she it was who looked after him.'The illustration was worked up from a drawing in the Birmingham collection (1911P63) executed by Solomon in 1860. The composition also became a painting (private collection). It is one of several illustrations by Solomon for the Bible Gallery which depict tender moments between parents and their children. A page from Dalziels' Bible Gallery, illustrations from the old testament from original drawings by various artists including Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, Frederick Leighton, Frederick Sandys, George Frederick Watts and Simeon Solomon. Commissioned in 1863, the bible was published by George Routledge & Sons, London, 1881.
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