Bishop Hatto and the Rats
John La Farge|Henry Marsh
ca. 1866–67
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Block: 6 15/16 x 5 1/2 in. (17.7 x 13.9 cm) Sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 7/16 in. (30.7 x 24 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.65.5
Tags
MenMice
About the Artist
John La Farge|Henry Marsh · 1835–1910
John La Farge (1835–1910) was born into a wealthy French émigré family in New York City, the son of John Frederick La Farge and Louisa Binsse de Saint-Victor. Educated at Jesuit institutions including Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland and St. John's College (now Fordham University), he initially pursued law but turned to art after receiving early drawing lessons from his maternal grandfather, a...