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Cain Killing Abel
Jan Harmensz Muller (Dutch, 1571–1628)LinkedCulture matchlcp-dd175cfb64b2
- Date
- c. 1589
- Medium
- Engraving on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 268716
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- Credit line
- Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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