Accession number
PML 145500, plate 125
Creator
Fittler, James, 1758-1835, engraver.
Published
[London : William Miller, 1811]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title and imprint from BM online catalog (item no. 1848,1125.484).
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 125, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145500-06).
Inlaid into leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Library's copy trimmed and cropped, with some loss to image.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 125, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145500-06).
Inlaid into leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Library's copy trimmed and cropped, with some loss to image.
Description
1 print : engraving ; sheet: 188 x 235 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
The Plague of Athens, after Poussin; an agora filled with people in distress, some lying on the ground, some in prayer, others raising their arms to the heaven; in the foreground lies two women on mattresses and ruined pillars, either dead or very sick; in the foreground, at left, a man standing beside the body of a woman and tearing his hair out.
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