[Mutilation of Adoni-Bezek] [print] / C. P. Marillier inv. ; Delvaux, L. fécit.

Accession number: 
PML 145500, plate 048
Author: 
Delvaux, Remi-Henri-Joseph, 1748-1823, engraver.
Published: 
[Paris : s.n., 1791]
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 139 x 91 mm; sheet: 152 x 97 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Caption title from "La Sainte Bible".
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 48, 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.
Engraving after a design by Marillier for an illustration for "La Sainte Bible" (Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1789), v. 3, p. (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 3e." and "page"; lettered below image: "C. P. Marillier inv." "Delvaux, L. fécit."
Library's copy is a proof impression before final lettering lacking the caption, volume and page number at head.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows a group of men tying up and restraining a bearded man. On the left, a man is raising a axe preparing to chop off the right foot of the restained man.

Classification: 
Print
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Department: 
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