Accession number:
PML 145499, plate 099
Published:
London : Robert Jennings, Poultry, Oct. 1827.
Description:
1 print : engraving ; image: 80 x 107 mm; sheet: 139 x 208 mm; plate mark: 143 x 215 mm
Credit:
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
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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