Accession number
PML 145499, plate 098
Creator
Heath, Charles, 1785-1848, engraver.
Published
London : Hurst, Robinson & Co., 90 Cheapside, 1821.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 98, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Engraved by Charles Heath and published in "Westall's illustrations of the Holy Bible in thirty-one plates", published: London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1821.
Production and publication detail below image: "Drawn by R. Westall, R. A." and "Engraved by Chas Heath". Title and caption below image: The Mother of Moses leaving her child in the Bull rushes. "And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bull rushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein, and she laid it in the flags, by the river's brink."---Exodus, Chap.II, Ver. 3.--- LONDON: Pulished Jan.1, 1821 by Hurst Robinson & Co. 90 Cheapside.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 98, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Engraved by Charles Heath and published in "Westall's illustrations of the Holy Bible in thirty-one plates", published: London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1821.
Production and publication detail below image: "Drawn by R. Westall, R. A." and "Engraved by Chas Heath". Title and caption below image: The Mother of Moses leaving her child in the Bull rushes. "And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bull rushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein, and she laid it in the flags, by the river's brink."---Exodus, Chap.II, Ver. 3.--- LONDON: Pulished Jan.1, 1821 by Hurst Robinson & Co. 90 Cheapside.
Description
1 print : steel engraving ; image: 116 x 92 mm; plate mark: 289 x 219 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows baby Moses asleep in a wicker basket at the bank of a river at left. A woman walks away from the baby at right, with her head bowed down and her hands clutched together under her chin. A sphinx-like sculpture stands in the left background.
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