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Rebecca Describes the Battle to Ivanhoe, (painting). Artist:  Blythe, David Gilmour, 1815-1865, painter. Title:  Rebecca Describes the Battle to Ivanhoe, (painting). Other Titles:  Prison Scene, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1859-1863. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  27 x 22 1/2 in. (68.6 x 57.2 cm) Inscription:  (Lower center:) Blythe signed Description:  In a scene from Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Rebecca peers out a window of a prison cell while holding a shield to her face to protect herself. She holds her right arm out to Ivanhoe who is seated on the floor. Subject:  Literature -- Scott -- Ivanhoe Literature -- Character -- Rebecca Literature -- Character -- Ivanhoe Architecture interior -- Civic -- Prison State of Being -- Other -- Imprisonment Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Accession Number: 54.4 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of McCallum, Eleanor G., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Haugh and Keenan Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Gift of Beal, James H., Mrs., 1954. References:  Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992. Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pg. 20. Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1990. Illustration:  Image on file. Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992, pg. 90. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 46470133   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 46470133 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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