St. Paul Shaking off the Viper

1. Mrs. E. K. Rule (died around 1959) [letter from Helmut von Erffa of August 8, 1970 in curatorial file]. Sold by Mrs. Robert Frank, London, to the Art Institute, 1960.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 25 (ill.), as "The Witch of Endor."

• Esther Sparks, "St. Paul Shaking off the Viper: An Early Romantic Series by Benjamin West," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies (March 1971), pp. 59-65, fig. 2.
• Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West (New Haven, Conn., 1986), p. 385.

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