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Title
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Exiles from the Fatherland
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Actual Title
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By the Waters of Babylon
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Date (Painted or Exhibited)
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1882-83
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First Exhibited Location
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Slade School, 1873-4
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Catalog Number
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16
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Catalog Description
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As the evening hour of prayer draws on, the Jews in exile at Babylon remember their fatherland. "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept, when we remember Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof."
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Alt-Text
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A group of mourning figures in colorful robes gather around an elderly man with a long white beard, surrounded by lyres and trees in a sorrowful outdoor scene.
