Accession number
PML 145499, plate 124
Creator
Ghendt, Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de, 1738-1815, 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 124, 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. 257 (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 1r." and "page 257"; ; lettered below image: "C. P. Marillier inv." "E. De Ghendt. sculp."
Library's copy is a proof impression before final lettering lacking the caption, volume and page number at head.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 124, 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. 257 (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 1r." and "page 257"; ; lettered below image: "C. P. Marillier inv." "E. De Ghendt. sculp."
Library's copy is a proof impression before final lettering lacking the caption, volume and page number at head.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 136 x 88 mm; sheet: 145 x 94 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows in the foreground a group of distraught soliders, adults and children on the edge of the Red Sea. In the middleground, a shepard with his sleep are climbing a cliff and a small group are standing on the submit of the hill over looking the sea. In the sea on the left and into the backgournd, people and animals are stuggling and drowning in the water.
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