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Jacob Persuaded to Send Benjamin with His Brethren into Egypt

William Wynne Ryland, after Sir Anthony van Dyck

1762

Jacob Persuaded to Send Benjamin with His Brethren into Egypt by William Wynne Ryland, after Sir Anthony van Dyck

Medium

stipple etching and roulette on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 30.7 × 30.7 cm (12 1/16 × 12 1/16 in.) sheet: 33.8 × 31.9 cm (13 5/16 × 12 9/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Accession Number

2017.19.1

Art Historical Context

In the National Gallery of Art's collection, *Jacob Persuaded to Send Benjamin with Histhren into Egypt* (1762) captures a biblical moment from Genesis 42–43. The scene depicts the aging patriarch Jacob reluctantly agreeing to send his youngest son Benjamin to Egypt amid famine, surrounded by his other sons who plead their case. This print is William Wynne Ryland's reproduction of a composition by Sir Anthony van Dy, the 17th-century Flemish Baroque master renowned for his dramatic religious narratives and elegant figures infused with emotion and light. Ryland, a leading English engraver of t...

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