Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Fiery Furnace

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Prints and Drawings

Oct. 1863

Simeon Solomon
British, 1840-1905

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Simeon Solomon
Title: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Fiery Furnace
Place: United Kingdom (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1863
Medium: Watercolor and opaque watercolor, with traces of graphite, on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, lower left corner, in pen and black ink: "10 SS 63"
Dimensions: 33 × 22.8 cm (13 × 9 in.)
Credit Line: Regenstein Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2022.274
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W.M. Rossetti, Fine Art Quarterly Review I (May 1863), p. 195. “Dudley Gallery. Sixth General Exhibition of Drawings,” The Art-Journal (Mar. 1, 1870), p. 87.
Atheneum (Feb. 12, 1870), p. 234. Illustrated London News (Feb. 12, 1870), pp. 181–82.
The Spectator (Feb. 19, 1870), p. 237.
Simon Reynolds, The Vision of Simeon Solomon (England: Stroud, 1984), pl. 31, p. 176.
Gayle Marie Seymour, “The Life and Work of Simeon Solomon (1840–1905),” 1986, dissertation University of California, Santa Barbara, pp. 91, 318, fig. 95.
Jasmine Allen, “Simeon Solomon and Stained Glass,” Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, XXVIII:3 (Autumn 2020), pp. 25–26, fig. 3.5.

London, The Gallery, Berners Street, Winter Exhibition, Feb. 1863, cat. 40.
Dudley Gallery, Sixth General Exhibition of Water-Color Drawings, Jan. 1870, cat. 45 (as The Three Holy Children in the Fiery Furnace).
London, Geffrye Museum, Solomon. A Family of Painters, Nov. 8–Dec. 31, 1985, cat. 46, p. 68 (ill.); Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Jan. 18–Mar. 9, 1986.
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites, Oct. 1, 2005–Jan. 15, 2006, cat. 40, pp. 90–91 (ill.); Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Mar. 9–June 18, 2006; The London Jewish Museum of Art, Ben Uri Gallery, Sept. 11–Nov. 26 2006.

Christopher Wood Gallery, London. Private collection, London and New York. Sold, Christie’s, London, Nov. 5, 1993, lot 128. Barry Friedman Ltd, New York, 2000. The Hearn Family Trust, New York, by Oct. 2005 [Birmingham 2005 exh. cat.]; sold through Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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