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| Image title: | Cain and Abel. |
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| Source: | Dalziel, the Brothers: “A Record of Fifty Years’ Work” (1901) |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | punishments, bare feet, people, rocks, nudity, biblical scenes, death, greyscale |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested |
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A naked man lies dead in the background, his genitals conveniently hidden by a cloth. In the foreground, a man wearing only an animal-skin scurries barefoot away through the rocks. The biblical scene is well-known. The image has a caption: “Cain and Abel By Lord Leighton, P.R.A., from “Dalziel’s Bible Gallery.” By permission of Messrs. Herbert Virtue & Co. Ltd.” (p. 239) “Special mention may be made of those [pictures for the Dalziel’s Bible Gallery book] by Lord, then Sir Frederick, Leighton, Bart., P.R.A., whose drawing of “Cain and Abel will always rank as one of the grandest examples of Biblical art of modern times” (p. 237) |
| Dimensions: | 122 x 137mm (4.8 x 5.4 inches) |
| Filename: | 239-Cain-and-Abel-q75-727x817.jpg |
| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/r/239-Cain-and-Abel-q75-445x500.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/r/pages/239-Cain-and-Abel/ |
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| Engraver: | Dalziel |
| Artist: | Lord Leighton |
| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
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