Accession number
PML 145500, plate 077
Creator
Fittler, James, 1758-1835, engraver.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1791]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 77, 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.
Lettered below image: "Rembrandt Pinxit." "J. Fittler A.R.A. Sculpsit" "Samuel and Eli" "London. Published by William Miller. MDCCCVIII."
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 77, 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.
Lettered below image: "Rembrandt Pinxit." "J. Fittler A.R.A. Sculpsit" "Samuel and Eli" "London. Published by William Miller. MDCCCVIII."
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 214 x 168 mm; sheet: 148 x 97 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Samuel's mother seated in a church at right, holding eyeglassess and a book on her lap. Samuel as a young boy leaning against her at left, a cane in lower right.
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