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The death of the first born [drawing].

Accession number
PML 145499, plate 118
Creator
Taylor, Isaac, 1787-1865.
Published
ca. 1813.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from caption title of published illustration.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 118, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Drawing inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Drawing by Isaac Taylor jr. for an engraving for plate XX of Boydell's "Illustrations of Holy Writ", originally published: London : Boydell and Co., 1813-1815.
Description
1 drawing
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Shows a group of people deeply mourning over a body lying on a bed sitting on a stepped platform. A woman kneeling at the foot of bed has both arms and hands raised above her head as she looks up to the sky.
Classification
Department