Accession number
PML 145499, plate 076
Creator
Delignon, Jean Louis, 1755-ca. 1804 engraver.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1789]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 76, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Published caption title.
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Engraving after a design by Marillier for an illustration for "La Sainte Bible" (Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1789), v. 1, p. 116 (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 1r." and "page 116"; lettered below image: "Marillier inv." "Delignon sculp."
Library's copy is a proof impression before final lettering lacking the caption, volume and page number at head.
Published caption title.
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Engraving after a design by Marillier for an illustration for "La Sainte Bible" (Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1789), v. 1, p. 116 (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 1r." and "page 116"; lettered below image: "Marillier inv." "Delignon sculp."
Library's copy is a proof impression before final lettering lacking the caption, volume and page number at head.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 139 x 90 mm; sheet: 154 x 95 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a group of people under a large canopy, a group of soliders are the right. One of the soliders is in coversation with a standing man and a seated woman with a child in her lap. In the foreground, a man is opening and searching through an open box of cloth.
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