DrawingsSwedish?18th-19th century

Massacre of the Innocents

18th-19th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black Ink, gray and brown wash, framing line in brown ink.

Culture

Swedish?

Century

18th-19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22 x 24.2 cm (8 11/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

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