Accession number
PML 145499, plate 099
Creator
Rolls, Charles, 1800- engraver.
Published
London : Robert Jennings, Poultry, Oct. 1827.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Illustration to the Keepsake for 1828.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 99, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Signed and dated and lettered with caption: Hebrew Melody; production and publication: Painted by R. Westall, R.A. Engraved by Charles Rolls. Printed by McQueen, London, Oct. 1827; Published for the Proprietor, by Robert Jennings, Poultry.
Library's copy printed on chine collé on sheet 331 x 233 mm
Illustration to the Keepsake for 1828.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 99, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Signed and dated and lettered with caption: Hebrew Melody; production and publication: Painted by R. Westall, R.A. Engraved by Charles Rolls. Printed by McQueen, London, Oct. 1827; Published for the Proprietor, by Robert Jennings, Poultry.
Library's copy printed on chine collé on sheet 331 x 233 mm
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 80 x 107 mm; sheet: 139 x 208 mm; plate mark: 143 x 215 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Bithiah's handmaiden finding Moses, the infant lying in basket of the shore of the Nile on the left, the maiden sitting on the right under palm trees.
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