Invitation with vignette from "The First Born" (with text)

1887

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 7 15/16 × 5 7/8 in. (20.2 × 14.9 cm) Sheet: 13 9/16 × 8 7/16 in. (34.5 × 21.4 cm)
Collection no.: 2019.241
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Hubert von Herkomer. Invitation with vignette from "The First Born" (with text). Hubert von Herkomer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Funds from various donors, 2019. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Invitation with vignette from "The First Born" (with text) — Hubert von Herkomer. 1887.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 7 15/16 × 5 7/8 in. (20.2 × 14.9 cm) Sheet: 13 9/16 × 8 7/16 in. (34.5 × 21.4 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Purchase, Frances and Claude Logan Fund and Various Donors, 2019.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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