Accession number
PML 145499, plate 126
Creator
Heath, Charles, 1785-1848, engraver.
Published
London : Longman, Hurst, Orme & Brown; J. White; Cadell & Davies; & P. W. Tomkins, 54 New Bond Street, Octr. 1817.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 126, 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.
Library's copy is trimmed with loss of signatures and imprint.
Print engraved by Heath after a painting by Poussin, published as plate 19 in William Young Ottley's "Engravings of the Most Noble, the Marquis of Stafford's collection of pictures in London" (London : Printed by Bensley and Son for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ; Cadell and Davies ; and P.W. Tomkins, 1818.).
Lettered above image: Class the first - Moses striking the rock / 19 - Schools of Lower Italy'; and below: N. Poussin - 4.4 1/2 by 3.2 1/2; production detail: Drawn by W. M. Craig. Engraved by C. Heath / London, Published Octr 1817 by Longman, Hurst, Orme & Brown; J. White; Cadell & Davies; & P. W. Tomkins, 54 New Bond Street.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 126, 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.
Library's copy is trimmed with loss of signatures and imprint.
Print engraved by Heath after a painting by Poussin, published as plate 19 in William Young Ottley's "Engravings of the Most Noble, the Marquis of Stafford's collection of pictures in London" (London : Printed by Bensley and Son for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ; Cadell and Davies ; and P.W. Tomkins, 1818.).
Lettered above image: Class the first - Moses striking the rock / 19 - Schools of Lower Italy'; and below: N. Poussin - 4.4 1/2 by 3.2 1/2; production detail: Drawn by W. M. Craig. Engraved by C. Heath / London, Published Octr 1817 by Longman, Hurst, Orme & Brown; J. White; Cadell & Davies; & P. W. Tomkins, 54 New Bond Street.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 114 x 154 mm; sheet: 129 x 161 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a landscape with Moses striking a rock with his staff, creating a miraculous spring, and people rushing to drink the water.
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