Accession number:
PML 145500, plate 073
Published:
[Paris : Basan et Poignant between 1775-1788]
Description:
1 print : engraving ; image: 162 x 197 mm; sheet: 165 x 197 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title, date range and publication information from British Museum online catalog. Consulted June 15, 2012.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500) as plate 55, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145500-06).
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Engraving after a design by Van den Eeckhout for an illustration for "Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands" 3 volume (Paris: l'Auteur, 1792).
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows Ruth standing at right holding a wheat-sheave, Boaz holding her arm and pointing at a farmer, others sheaving in a field in left background.
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