Accession number
PML 145499, plate 048
Creator
Villerey, Antoine Claude François, 1754-1828, engraver.
Published
[Paris : Chez Filhol?, 1810]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 48, 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.
Print engraved by Villerey after painting by Veronese, published as plate 650 in v. 7 of "Galerie du Musée Napoléon" (Paris : Filhol, 1804-1828).
Inscription from Filhol - Lettered at head: P. Veronese.; numbered at upper left: No. 650; lettered at upper right: Ecole Italne; at lower left: Delé par Sr. Lee Roy; at lower center: Gravé a l' Eau-forte par Chataigner; lower right: Termé par Villerey.
Library's copy is a proof before final lettering.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 48, 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.
Print engraved by Villerey after painting by Veronese, published as plate 650 in v. 7 of "Galerie du Musée Napoléon" (Paris : Filhol, 1804-1828).
Inscription from Filhol - Lettered at head: P. Veronese.; numbered at upper left: No. 650; lettered at upper right: Ecole Italne; at lower left: Delé par Sr. Lee Roy; at lower center: Gravé a l' Eau-forte par Chataigner; lower right: Termé par Villerey.
Library's copy is a proof before final lettering.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 108 x 135 mm; sheet: 159 x 167 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Lot and his daughters fleeing Sodom, with in the left foreground Lot's daughters led by an angel and at right, another angel walking alongside Lot; beyond, at left, Lot's wife turned into a salt statue, and the burning city.
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