Caption title.
After an original painting later reattributed to Orazio Gentileschi, ca.1622. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 49, 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 below image on left: Peint par Dom Diego Velasquez; at center: Dessiné par Borel; at right: Gravé par Ph. Trière. Lettered at center below image: Loth et ses filles.; De la Galerie de S.A.S. Monseigneur Le Duc d'Orleans.; A.P. D.R.; followed by 17 lines of descriptive text in French engraved below the the image; inscribed at bottom center, "Gal. Palais Royal."; at bottom right, "Niquet, femme L'Epine"; text and image enclosed within decorative border.
From: Galerie du Palais Royal : gravée d'après les tableaux des differentes ecoles qui la composent / avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres & une description historique de chaque tableau par mr. l'abbé de Fontenai, dediée a S.A.S. monseigneur le duc d'Orleans, premier prince du sang, par J. Couché (Paris : J. Couché, 1786-1808); being a collection of 352 engravings after artwork in the collection of Philippe II, duc d'Orléans, comprising 3 volumes issued in parts between 1786 and 1808.
Library's copy has been cropped and trimmed, with loss of border and descriptive text.
Shows Lot sleeping between his daughters; one of them points at the city of Sodom, burning in the background.