Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Sphinx
1873-1874
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Sphinx
1873-1874
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 199 x 184 mm. (7 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Plate: 96 x 91 mm. (3 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.47
Illustration for "To the Sphinx" in William Bell Scott, Poems (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1875)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Inscribed: Signed in pencil: lower right "L. Alma-Tadema".
Markings: None