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Father's Leave-Taking, 1879. Etching on ivory laid paper.
Etching on ivory laid paper · Plate: 18.9 × 25 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Father's Leave-Taking
- Artist
- William Holman Hunt English, 1827-1910
- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 18.9 × 25 cm (7 1/2 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 33.3 × 47.5 cm (13 1/8 × 18 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1827–1910
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.