Accession number:
PML 145499, plate 111
Published:
[Paris : s.n., 1789]
Description:
1 print : engraving ; image: 137 x 90 mm; sheet: 151 x 96 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Published caption title.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 111, 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. 234 (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 1r." and "page 234"; lettered below image: "C. P. Marillier inv." "Dambrun sculp."
Library's copy is a proof impression before lettering.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows the image of a hail storm with two fallen oxen before a wagon carrying three people. A dog and two figures are lying on the ground in the foreground.
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