Accession number
PML 145500, plate 051
Creator
Lupton, Thomas Goff, 1791-1873, engraver.
Published
London : W. B. Cooke, 9 Soho Square, Sept. 1, 1825.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from the British Museum online catalog.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 51, 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.
Signed within image and lettered with caption: "Painted by James Northcote, R. A." "Engraved by Thomas Lupton" "Jael and Sisera - Judges Ch 4" "The Picture in the possession of the Royal Academy".
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 51, 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.
Signed within image and lettered with caption: "Painted by James Northcote, R. A." "Engraved by Thomas Lupton" "Jael and Sisera - Judges Ch 4" "The Picture in the possession of the Royal Academy".
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 133 x 182 mm; sheet: 153 x 185 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Sisera, lying on a bed, asleep, wearing armour; Jael leans over him, with a nail in her left hand and a hammer in her right, about to drive it into his head.
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