Accession number
PML 145499, plate 022
Creator
Taylor, Isaac, 1759-1829, engraver.
Published
London : Hurst & Co., 90 Cheapside, 1820.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 22, 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.
Engraved by Isaac Taylor after Isaac Taylor junior and originally published as plate VI of Boydell's "Illustrations of Holy Writ", originally published: London : Boydell and Co., 1813-1815. This is a later impression for an 1820 edition of Boydell's work, published: London : Hurst & Co., 1820.
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption "The Deluge" and "And all the flesh died---Gen. 7.v.21.", with production and publication detail below image: "Isc. Taylor Jun. delt." and "Pub. Jan.1.1820. by Hurst & Co. 90 Cheapside London" and "Isc. Taylor sculpt".
Library's copy printed on india paper and backed with drawing paper.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 22, 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.
Engraved by Isaac Taylor after Isaac Taylor junior and originally published as plate VI of Boydell's "Illustrations of Holy Writ", originally published: London : Boydell and Co., 1813-1815. This is a later impression for an 1820 edition of Boydell's work, published: London : Hurst & Co., 1820.
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption "The Deluge" and "And all the flesh died---Gen. 7.v.21.", with production and publication detail below image: "Isc. Taylor Jun. delt." and "Pub. Jan.1.1820. by Hurst & Co. 90 Cheapside London" and "Isc. Taylor sculpt".
Library's copy printed on india paper and backed with drawing paper.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 75 x 100 mm; sheet: 116 x 130 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
In the foreground, a group of victims of the floods clinging to a rock, sun the horizon in background, and a flock of birds circling overhead.
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