Suite de la defaite des Benjamites [print] / Marillier del. ; Delaunay sc.
Accession number:
PML 145500, plate 069
Published:
[Paris : s.n., 1791]
Description:
1 print : engraving ; image: 138 x 90 mm; sheet: 153 x 97 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Caption title from "La Sainte Bible".
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 69, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Engraving after a design by Marillier for an illustration for "La Sainte Bible" (Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1789), v. 3, p.98 (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 3e." and "page 98"; lettered below image: "Marillier del." "Delauney sc."
Library's copy is a proof impression before final lettering lacking the caption, volume and page number at head.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows soliders in battle. Flames and smoke rise from a structure inthe backgorund.
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