Elcana présentant son fils au grand prétre [print] / Desine par Płoński ; Gravé par Hess, Profr. de l'Acade de Pre à Duseldorf.

Accession number: 
PML 145500, plate 076
Author: 
Hess engraver.
Published: 
[Paris : Chez Filhol?, 1810]
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 111 x 138 mm; sheet: 133 x 148 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Caption title from inscription from Filhol.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145500), as plate 76, 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.
Print engraved by Hess after drawing by Płoński after painting by Van den Eeckhout, published as plate 584 in v. 9 of "Galerie du Musée Napoléon" (Paris : Filhol, 1804-1828).
Lettered at head: Dietrich; numbered at upper left: No. 584; lettered at upper right: Ecole Flamde; at lower left: Desine par Płoński ; lower right: Gravé par Hess, Profr. de l'Acade de Pre à Duseldorf.
Library's copy is a proof before final lettering.

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

Print shows a kneeling woman with a small infant at the base of a platform before a king sitted on his throne. A small group with a donkey stands to the right of the throne.

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