Exiles from the Fatherland

Item

Title
Exiles from the Fatherland
Actual Title
By the Waters of Babylon
Artist
Miss Evelyn Pickering
First Exhibited Date
1882-83
Type
Oil on canvas
Size (HxW, mm)
895 x 1670
First Exhibited Location
Check?Slade School, 1873-4
Current Exhibition Location
De Morgan Collection, Barnsley: P_EDM_0007
Lent By
the artist
Catalog Number
16
Catalog Page
3
Catalog Description
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 out ==r harps upon the willows in the midst thereof."