The Childhood of Oedipus

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Photo by John Bentham.
The Childhood of Oedipus
Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born Switzerland, 1900 - 1962)
Date1944
MediumEtching
DimensionsComposition: 43.8 x 28.6 cm (17 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.) Plate: 44.5 x 29.8 cm (17 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.) Sheet: 57.5 x 39.4 cm (22 5/8 x 15 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Montfort Dunn
Object number1992.45.2
Not on view
DescriptionAbstract figures, one looking down on the other
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Photo by John Bentham.
Oedipus at Colonus
Kurt Seligmann
Date: n.d.
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1992.45.6
Photo by John Bentham.
The Sphinx, from the series "The Myth of Oedipus"
Kurt Seligmann
Date: 1944
Medium: Etching on handmade rag paper
Object number: 1992.45.1
Photo by John Bentham.
The Riddle
Kurt Seligmann
Date: n.d.
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1992.45.4
Photo by John Bentham.
The Slaying of Laius
Kurt Seligmann
Date: n.d.
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1992.45.3
Photo by John Bentham.
The Marriage
Kurt Seligmann
Date: n.d.
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1992.45.5
Captured at Last (June 3, 1875), from "Harper's Weekly"
Captured at Last (June 3, 1875), from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published June 5, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.287
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Jamea Richmond-Edwards
Date: 2018
Medium: Pigment print with silkscreen diamond dust and gold foil
Object number: 2020.1
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Survivor's Wake
Lee R. Chesney
Date: 1949
Medium: Engraving and softground etching on paper
Object number: 1989.7
The Horse and His Rider, from "Harper's Weekly"
The Horse and His Rider, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published June 27, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.245
Photograph by John Bentham.
Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto Il Colosseo (View of Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: 1776
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1987.14
This Will be a Change, from "Harper's Weekly"
This Will be a Change, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 4, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.347
Latecomers Must Make the Intermission, from the series "L'Opéra"
Latecomers Must Make the Intermission, from the series "L'Opéra"
Kurt Blum
Date: c. 1962
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.177