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Moyse enterrant l'Egyptien [print] / Patel le Père ; desé par Vaserot ; gravé à l'eau-forte par Pillement ; termé par Niquet.

Accession number
PML 145499, plate 105
Creator
Niquet, Claude, ca.1770-after 1831, engraver.
Published
[Paris : Chez Filhol?, 1810]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 105, 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.
Print engraved by Niquet after painting by Patel, published as plate 706 in v. 10 of "Galerie du Musée Napoléon" (Paris : Filhol, 1804-1828).
Lettered at head: Patel Père.; numbered at upper left: No. 706; lettered at upper right Ecole Franc̜se; at lower left: Desiné par Vaserot; at lower center: Gravé à l' Eau-forte par Pillment; lower right: Temé par Duparc.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 126 x 109 mm; sheet: 147 x 116 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Moses burying the body of the Egyptian. Landscape with trees, hIlls and architectural ruins in the background.
Classification
Department