Dalziels' Bible Gallery - Hagar and Ishmael1862 – 1881 Accession number: 1920P713.2.12 Wood engraving on India paper, in bound volume. Width: 120 mm Height: 166 mm InformationThe subject of this illustration is taken from Genesis 21:14. It depicts the moment when Hagar, a concubine, and her son Ishmael are sent away Abraham. They are dismissed at the insistence of his wife, Sarah, who had just given birth to Issac. The design was commissioned by the Dalziel brothers in the early 1860s for their 'Bible Gallery.' Due to many delays the book was not published until 1881. Solomon had already tackled the same subject in a small pen-and-ink drawing (1857, private collection). In this version Hagar is much less meek and is shown with the shackles of her former bondage.
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