Accession number
PML 145500, plate 095
Creator
Doo, George Thomas, 1800-1886, engraver.
Published
London : Hurst & Co., 90 Cheapside, Jan. 1, 1820.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 95, 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.
Designed by Isaac Taylor jr. and engraved by George Doo for Boydell's "Illustrations of Holy Writ", originally published: London : Boydell and Co., 1813-1815. This is a later impression for an 1820 edition of Boydell's work, published: London : Hurst & Co., 1820.
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption: David before Saul with Goliath's head. And David answered, I am the son of thye servant Jess the Bethlemite. ̲1. Samuel 17. v. 58.; with production and publication detail below: Isc. Taylor Jun. delt. Pub. Jan.1.1820. by Hurst & Co.90 Cheapside, London. G. Doo sculpt.
Library's copy printed on india paper and backed with drawing paper.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 95, 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.
Designed by Isaac Taylor jr. and engraved by George Doo for Boydell's "Illustrations of Holy Writ", originally published: London : Boydell and Co., 1813-1815. This is a later impression for an 1820 edition of Boydell's work, published: London : Hurst & Co., 1820.
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption: David before Saul with Goliath's head. And David answered, I am the son of thye servant Jess the Bethlemite. ̲1. Samuel 17. v. 58.; with production and publication detail below: Isc. Taylor Jun. delt. Pub. Jan.1.1820. by Hurst & Co.90 Cheapside, London. G. Doo sculpt.
Library's copy printed on india paper and backed with drawing paper.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 102 x 76 mm; sheet: 144 x 107 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young David standing on the right with his long sword resting on the head of Goliath, which sits on the ground. Saul is seated on raised platform on the left. In the left foreground, cloth and a group of shields and spears are on the ground.
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