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The Prodigal Son in Misery.

Date1830-1840

MediumLithography; printer's ink on wove paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 12 13/16 x 10 5/16in. (32.5 x 26.2cm)
Sheet (height x width): 15 13/16 x 11 7/8in. (40.2 x 30.2cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

DescriptionA young man wearing a coat, shirt, breeches, hose, slippers, and a hat is seated on a bank in what appears to be a pig sty. His clothes are torn and ragged. Two pigs eat from a wooden trough at the right. Another pig stands in the foreground near a whip. The head of a fourth pig is visible behind the wooden shelter in the right background. A board fence and a large tree are in the left background. A house, possibly with a thatched roof, trees, and hills are in the distance.

Object number1975.75.3

InscribedOn recto, lithographed title beneath image, "THE PRODIGAL SON IN MISERY. / He would fain have filled his Belly with the Huske that the Swine did eat. / Luke 15.16."

On verso, in pencil: upper left, accession number; lower right, "Dwr 46 [crossed out] 43".NotesArtist Note: Print is not signed, but on the basis of style, it is almost certainly either by D.W. Kellogg & Co. or an early work by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. (Finlay 1/30/2004)

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