Elijah and the Widow's Son, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"
Medium
Wood engraving on India paper, mounted on thin card
Dimensions
Image: 9 in. × 5 13/16 in. (22.8 × 14.7 cm) India sheet: 10 15/16 × 7 11/16 in. (27.8 × 19.6 cm) Mount: 16 7/16 in. × 12 15/16 in. (41.8 × 32.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 1926
Accession Number
26.99.1(58)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *Elijah and the Widow Son*, a poignant wood engraving from the Victorian-era *Dalziels' Bible Gallery*1865–81), now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department. by Pre-Raphaelite painter Madox Brown and masterfully engraved by the Dalziel Brothers—renowned for their intricate reproductive prints—this image captures the biblical miracle from 1 Kings 17. Here, the prophet Elijah stretches over the widow's lifeless son, breathing life back into him amid a scene of raw maternal grief and divine intervention. Tags highlighting boys, men, and mothers underscore t...
About the Artist
Camden Press|Scribner and Welford|Dalziel Brothers|Ford Madox Brown (British|American|British) · 1857 |1800 |1839 –1893 |1899 |1893
British, London|New York, NY|British, active 1839–93