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- Title:
- Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well
- Former Title(s):
Isaac's servant tying the bracelet on Rebecca's arm [1776, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
Abraham's Servant Tying the Bracelet on Rebecca's Arm- Date:
- 1775
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 48 3/4 x 63 3/16 inches (123.8 x 160.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black paint, lower right: "B. West | 1775"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.20
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1978.43.20FR
- Subject Terms:
- bracelet | camel (mammal) | costume | gift | love | lovers | men | Old Testament | Rebekah receives ear-rings and golden bracelets from Eliezer | religious and mythological subject | servant | shadows | tying | urn | women
- Associated People:
- Rebekah, wife of Isaac and sister of Laban
Isaac - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:492
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Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 16, V1880 [ORBIS]
David Peters Corbett, Anglo-American : artistic exchange between Britain and the USA, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA, 2012, pp. 30. 41. 42, Chap. 2, fig. 1, N72.N38 A54 2012 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 20, no. 56, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Helmut von Erffa, The Paintings of Benjamin West, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986, pp. 79, 80, 2698-69, 278,284, 291-92, no. 243, NJ18 W52 A12 +E73 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]