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"Cain and Abel" Stoveplate
174127 x 26 in. (68.6 x 66 cm)
American artist
United States
Object Type:
Metalwork
Medium and Support:
Cast iron
Credit Line:
R. T. Miller Fund
Accession Number:
1953.39
Location: Not currently on view
18th-century Pennsylvania Dutch communities used five-sided stoves created with cast-iron decorated plates like this one. Often, they were decorated with Biblical scenes and sayings. This stoveplate is embellished with a scene showing the attack on Abel by his brother, Cain, and the inscription reads: CAIN. SEINEN. BRUTER. AWEL. TOT. SCHLUG (Cain killed his brother Abel). The plate is thought to have been cast at Durham Furnace in Northern Bucks County, PA.
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Provenance
Antique Center (Rochester?); purchased from them by the Gallery in 1953
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Loans to the Rochester Museum of Arts & Sciences Memorial Art Gallery 1967
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Henry C. Mercer and Horace M. Mann. The Bible in Iron. Doylestown, PA: Bucks County Historical Society, 1941.
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