Adam sacrifices a lamb, which Eve scatters with flowers (left); Thirza mourns by the water (right). Etching by R.B. Peake after T. Uwins.

  • Uwins, Thomas, 1782-1857.
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Adam sacrifices a lamb, which Eve scatters with flowers (left); Thirza mourns by the water (right). Etching by R.B. Peake after T. Uwins. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Bible. O.T. Genesis 4.4. However, very little in the scenes here depicted is strictly biblical; the references are to Salomon Gessner's 'The death of Abel', a poem in Miltonic style first translated into English from German in 1761

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London (Paternoster Row) : J. Walker ; London (St. Paul's Church Yard) : J. Harris

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1 print : etching

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The death of Abel, from the German of Gessner. I laid the bleeding lamb on the altar, and Eve scattered on it odoriferous flowers. Book 2nd. Thirza mourning over the grave of Abel. Book 5th. T. Uwins del. R.B. Peake sculp.

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