Accession number
PML 145499, plate 052
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 52, 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 by Isaac Taylor after a drawing by Isaac Taylor jr., published as plate XII of Boydell's "Illustrations of Holy Writ", originally published: London : Boydell and Co., 1813-1815.
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption "The Banishment of Hagar. She said unto Abraham, cast out this bond woman and her son: Gen.21.v.10.", 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 en chine collé on india paper.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 52, 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 by Isaac Taylor after a drawing by Isaac Taylor jr., published as plate XII of Boydell's "Illustrations of Holy Writ", originally published: London : Boydell and Co., 1813-1815.
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption "The Banishment of Hagar. She said unto Abraham, cast out this bond woman and her son: Gen.21.v.10.", 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 en chine collé on india paper.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 100 x 75 mm; sheet: 143 x 107 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing illustrates Genesis, chapter 21, verse 10, and shows a woman (Sarah) under canopy with infant in her lap as she points towards a woman (Hagar) with a child at her side; bow and arrow with dead game in the foreground.
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