Artworks · Benjamin West, Benjamin West, American

The Angel at the Tomb of Christ

1809 · Pen and iron-gall ink on white laid paper

4 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (11.4 x 9.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Moses Shown the Promised Land

1801 · Oil on wood

19 3/4 x 28 3/4 in. (50.2 x 73 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

1791 · Oil on canvas

48.6 × 72.9 cm (19 1/8 × 28 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of a Man

1790 · Oil on canvas

127 × 102 cm (50 × 40 1/8 in.); Framed: 152.4 × 128.3 × 11.5 cm (60 × 50 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Damsel and Orlando

1790 · Oil on canvas

36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross

1784 · Oil on canvas

39.1 × 52.7 cm (15 3/8 × 20 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for "Alexander III, King of Scotland, Saved from a Stag by Colin Fitzgerald"

1784 · Pen and brown ink, brown ink washes, black chalk, and graphite on off-white (now oxidized) laid paper.

13 5/8 x 20 1/8 in. (34.6 x 51.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hagar and Ishmael

1776 · Oil on canvas

76 x 54 1/2 in. (193 x 138.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fan

1775 · Ivory guards and sticks, carved; paper mount, painted; gold leaf; metal pin with mother-of-pearl

28.8 × 50.4 cm (11 1/4 × 19 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for "Penn's Treaty with the Indians"

1771 · Graphite, pen and ink on cream laid paper

13.5 × 20.5 cm (5 5/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The Death of Procris

1770 · Oil on panel

32.4 × 41.2 cm (12 3/4 × 16 1/4 in.); Framed: 41.6 × 50.8 × 5.1 cm (16 3/8 × 20 × 2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Alexander's Confidence with his Physician Philip

1769 · Brush and brown and black wash, with tan gouache, heightened with white gouache, with incising, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card

Primary support: 21.8 × 30 cm (8 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 30.1 × 36.9 cm (11 7/8 × 14 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

St. Paul Shaking off the Viper

1758 · Pen and brown ink with brush and tan wash, on cream laid paper with blue fibers tipped onto cream wove paper

30.4 × 37.6 cm (12 × 14 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Scene at Margate

1738 · Pen, brown ink, and white chalk on blue laid paper

4 1/2 x 7 in. (11.4 x 17.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Turkey

1738 · Pen and brown ink on wove paper

4 11/16 x 3 1/4 in. (11.9 x 8.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art