Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness (recto); Two Portrait Studies of the Artists Wife, and a Study of a Leg and Torso (verso)
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RECTO: Expelled from Abraham's household by his jealous wife Sarah, the Egyptian slave Hagar strides forward, and gently pulls her illegitimate son, Ishmael, behind her (Genesis 21:14). A disembodied pair of legs sketched at the top of the sheet explores the child's reluctant pose. The portrait painter, miniaturist, and printmaker George Richmond drew these Old Testament figures during a heady period of youthful exuberance, when he belonged to an artistic brotherhood devoted to the example of William Blake and Renaissance art. VERSO: The head and neck of an engaging young woman, her hair falling in fashionable ringlets beside her face, appears twice: viewed from the front and turned slightly to the left. These impromptu portraits depict the artist's wife, Julia, with whom he had eloped at the age of twenty-one. The two would have fifteen children, ten of whom survived infancy, including Sir William Blake Richmond, the painter named for his father's artistic mentor.Free picture Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness (recto); Two Portrait Studies of the Artists Wife, and a Study of a Leg and Torso (verso) integrated with the OffiDocs web apps
