Accession number
PML 145499, plate 123
Creator
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635, etcher, illustrator.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1629]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 123, 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.
Library's copy is closely trimmed to image with loss of imprint.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 123, 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.
Library's copy is closely trimmed to image with loss of imprint.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 128 x 233 mm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the crossing of the Red Sea; in the foreground stand Moses and Aaron, facing left, with the former brandishing his staff; in the middleground, procession of people coming out of the corridor formed by the parted sea, and carrying the Ark of the Covenant; in the distance at left, Pharaoh and his army are engulfed by the sea.
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