The Image Breaker, 1850. Creators: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Alfred Jones.

The Image Breaker, 1850. Creators: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Alfred Jones.

3-055-396 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

The Image Breaker, 1850. The clash between the persistence of Catholic veneration of the Virgin and Protestant orthodoxy in Elizabethan England provided Leutze with a dramatic subject, in which a Puritan husband destroys his wife’s statuette of the Madonna and Child.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, attributed to: :
  2. Alfred Jones, attributed to: :

Medium
  1. Ink on paper, engraving with hand-colouring

Category Hierarchy

Religion & Belief Christianity

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Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4153x4960
File Size : 60,349kb


Aliases

  1. 1983.198
  1. 71339
  1. 1260001180
  1. 1983.198
  1. 3-055-396
  1. 3055396

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