The White Captive

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Erastus Dow Palmer (American, Pompey, New York 1817–1904 Albany, New York)
Date: 1857–58; carved 1858–59
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 65 x 20 1/4 x 17 in. (165.1 x 51.4 x 43.2 cm)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: Sculpture
Department: The American Wing
Credit line: Bequest of Hamilton Fish, 1894
Accession no.: 94.9.3

Indian Girl, or The Dawn of Christianity
Erastus Dow Palmer
1853–56; carved 1855–56 · Sculpture
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000449
Sappho
Erastus Dow Palmer
1855; carved 1861 · Sculpture
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000450
Imogen
Erastus Dow Palmer
1874 · Sculpture
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001892
Evening; Morning
Erastus Dow Palmer
c. 1850 · Sculpture
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010795