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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Boydell, John, 1720–1804
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Graham, George, active 1786–1813
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Martin, John, 1789–1854
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19th century
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religious and mythological subject
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Laocoon and his twin sons are strangled by two serpents during the preparations for a sacrifice
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Samuel growing up in the temple of Shiloh
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beard
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birth and childhood of Samuel (1 Samuel 1-2:21)
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bonnets
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Elkanah, husband of Hannah, and the father of her children including her first, Samuel
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Hannah, one of the wives of Elkanah mentioned in the First Book of Samuel. According to the Hebrew Bible she was the mother of Samuel
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Laocoön
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Samuel
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The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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John Martin, 1789–1854
Kensington Gardens
between 1815 and 1816
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William Blake, 1757–1827
Copy of the Laocoön, for Rees's Cyclopædia
1815
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Print made by George Graham, active 1786–1813
Elkanah, Hannah and Samuel
1815