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Apparition de trois hommes a Abraham [print] / CP Marillier, inv ; JJ Hubert sculp.

Accession number
PML 145499, plate 038
Creator
Hubert, Jean Jacques, b.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 38, 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. 54 (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 1r." and "page 54"; lettered below image "CL Marillier, inv", "JJ Hubert 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: 140 x 90 mm; sheet: 152 x 96 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows three young men seated in a courtyard at a low stone table; at right stand Abraham and Sarah in a large stone gateway.
Classification
Department