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Enfans de Jacob sont mis en prison [print].

Accession number
PML 145499, plate 089
Creator
Giraud, Antoine Cosme, 1760- engraver.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1789]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Published caption title.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 89, 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.
Engraving after a design by Marillier for an illustration for "La Sainte Bible" (Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1789), v. 1, p. 164 (facing).
Signed: "C.P. Marillier inv et del" and "A.C. Giraud le jeune sculp"; numbered at head: "Tom. 1r." and "page 164".
Library's copy is a proof impression before letters printed on chine.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 139 x 90 mm; sheet: 153 x 97 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows one of the brothers of Joseph apprehended in the market place as his other brothers load a sack of grain onto the back of a donkey in the foreground.
Classification
Department