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The Hymn of the Daughters of Israel and David [print].

Accession number
PML 145500, plate 093
Published
[Netherlands? : s.n., ca. 1600?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engraving after a painted glass panel by Lucas van Leyden, now in the Ambrosiana Library in Milan, with partially effaced but still visible initial "L" on the face of the stone at lower left; possibly a reverse copy of an engraving after Van Leyden by Jan Saenredam, ca. 1600.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500) as plate 93, 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.
Library's copy is closely trimmed to image with loss of caption text.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 258 x 185 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows David, at left, holding aloft the head of Goliath impaled on a large sword as he stands in front of a group of women singing at right, some wearing feathered hats.
Classification
Department