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Adam and Hawa
Egyptian
20th Century
Medium/Technique
Chromolithograh
Dimensions
Height x width: 48.2 × 24.9 cm (19 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Edwin E. Jack Fund
Accession Number2023.49
NOT ON VIEW
This poster is a chromolithograph done in the style common in Egypt in the early 20th century, though it draws on European influences; posters like these were sold and hung in homes and businesses. This image is of Adam and Hawa -Eve- in a scene common to Christinaity, Judaism and Islam: Adam and Hawa in paradise when taking fruit from a tree at the behest of Iblis, represented here as a snake. The figures here are labeled in black Arabic-script by name. There is also an image inset into the poster: A man in a desert in a bowed position. It is unclear whether this image portrays Adam after being expeled from paradise.
DescriptionTwo figures wearing leaves around their waists, labeled Adam and Hawa in Arabic script, with a tree beset with red fruit between them amodst a blue blackground. The figure labeled Hawa is holding an apple with their arm outstretched to a snake wrapped around the tree. Inset image with a figure praying in a desert-like scene.
ProvenanceAbout 1930s/1940s, probably acquired by the library of the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles; 1990s, sold by the library of the Philosophical Research Society to Sam Fogg, Ltd., London; 2022, consigned by Sam Fogg to N.G. McBurney (bookseller), London; 2023, sold by N. G. McBurney to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 15, 2023)