# Hannah Presenting Samuel to Eli

**John Flaxman** (English, 1755–1826)  
c. 1783  
Pen and black ink and brush and black ink wash, with touches of pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper  
34 × 47 cm (13 7/16 × 18 9/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.3177. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/270369).

## About this work

John Flaxman painted this in about 1783, aged 28. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of pen and black ink and brush and black ink wash, with touches of pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Pen and ink.** Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
- **Laid paper.** Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.

### [John Flaxman](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/john-flaxman)

English, 1755–1826

Flaxman trained at the Royal Academy Schools and first made his name modelling designs for Josiah Wedgwood’s jasperware. During seven years in Rome he produced outline illustrations to Homer, Aeschylus and Dante, engraved and published to international acclaim; their pure, linear style influenced artists across Europe. Back in London he became a leading sculptor of funerary monuments and the first Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Culture: Great Britain
- The artist was 28
- Real size: about 13 × 19 in (34 × 47 cm). The 16 × 20 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 18th century
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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