Accession number
PML 145499, plate 034
Creator
Fittler, James, 1758-1835, engraver.
Published
[London : J. Fittler R. Bowyer, 1792]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 34, 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.
Lettered above the image: "Ch. XVI Genesis ver 6.'; on the left side of image: "Done from the original / in the possession of / Wellbore Ellis Agar, Efq."; on the right side of the image: "Painted by Sir P.P. Rubens / Engraved by J. FIttler / Drawn by C.R. Riley."; below the image "Published by J. Fittler R. Bowyer, London May, 1792, as the Act directs."
Engraving after original painting by Peter Paul Rubens.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 34, 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.
Lettered above the image: "Ch. XVI Genesis ver 6.'; on the left side of image: "Done from the original / in the possession of / Wellbore Ellis Agar, Efq."; on the right side of the image: "Painted by Sir P.P. Rubens / Engraved by J. FIttler / Drawn by C.R. Riley."; below the image "Published by J. Fittler R. Bowyer, London May, 1792, as the Act directs."
Engraving after original painting by Peter Paul Rubens.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 75.5 x 111 mm; sheet: 107 x 162 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Abraham and Sara, along with a dog, standing in the doorway of a building and sending a pregnant Hagar away.
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