Dalziels' Bible Gallery - Abraham and Isaac1862 – 1881 Accession number: 1920P713.1.13 Wood engraving on India paper, in bound volume. Width: 135 mm Height: 179 mm InformationThe subject of this illustration is taken from Genesis 22:1-3. This passage recalls the episode in which God orders Abraham to take his son Isaac to Mount Moriah and sacrifice him. Here, Isaac is oblivious to his fate. 'Visualising the contrast between Issac's confidence in his father's love and Abraham's anguish [Solomon's design] shows the father delicately kissing his son's hand while caressing his head' (Simon Cooke, 'Dalziel's Bible Gallery' in 'The Private Library,' vol. 10:2, p. 77). Solomon had used this episode as the subject of three previous compositions: a pen-and-ink drawing (c. 1855, The Jewish Museum, London), an oil painting (exhibited at the RA in 1858) and a watercolour (c. 1858). The drawing, though cruder with far less detail, depicts father and son in a similar manner. 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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