Accession number
PML 145500, plate 029
Creator
Adam, Jakob, 1748-1811, engraver.
Published
[Paris? : s.n., 18--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Cataloger provided title.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 29, 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.
A later, reengraved edition of an engraving after a design by Marillier, originally executed for an illustration for "La Sainte Bible" (Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1789), v. 2, p. 222 (facing).
Signed: "Marillier inv." and "I. Adam sc."; numbered at upper right: "38".
Library's copy is closely trimmed with loss of caption.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 29, 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.
A later, reengraved edition of an engraving after a design by Marillier, originally executed for an illustration for "La Sainte Bible" (Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1789), v. 2, p. 222 (facing).
Signed: "Marillier inv." and "I. Adam sc."; numbered at upper right: "38".
Library's copy is closely trimmed with loss of caption.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 130 x 85 mm; sheet: 136 x 93 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Moses pointing with a stick to a serpent wrapped at the top of a pole. A group of people in foreground have snakes intertwined in their arms.
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