Accession number
PML 145500, plate 026
Creator
Taylor, Isaac, 1759-1829, engraver.
Published
London : Hurst & Co., 90 Cheapside, Jan. 1, 1820.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 26, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145500-06).
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Designed and engraved by Isaac Taylor as plate XXVIII of Boydell's "Illustrations of Holy Writ", originally published: London : Boydell and Co., 1813-1815. This is a later impression for an 1820 edition of Boydell's work, published: London : Hurst & Co., 1820.
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption: Moses smiting the rock. And the congregation drank, and their beasts also._Numb. 20, v. 11.; with production and publication detail below: Isc. Taylor Jun. delt. Pub. Jan.1.1820. by Hurst & Co.90 Cheapside London Isc. Taylor sculpt.
Library's copy printed on india paper and backed with drawing paper.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 26, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145500-06).
Print inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Designed and engraved by Isaac Taylor as plate XXVIII of Boydell's "Illustrations of Holy Writ", originally published: London : Boydell and Co., 1813-1815. This is a later impression for an 1820 edition of Boydell's work, published: London : Hurst & Co., 1820.
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption: Moses smiting the rock. And the congregation drank, and their beasts also._Numb. 20, v. 11.; with production and publication detail below: Isc. Taylor Jun. delt. Pub. Jan.1.1820. by Hurst & Co.90 Cheapside London Isc. Taylor sculpt.
Library's copy printed on india paper and backed with drawing paper.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 75 x 101 mm; sheet: 118 x 133 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows water gushing from rock, Moses and Aaron standing beside at right, figures collapsed with thirst in the foreground, a man on a dying camel at right; frame surrounding.
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