Accession number
PML 140007, no. 36
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Paris?], 1718
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
An illustration for "Les dieux d'Egipte"; Livre I, Fable dixhuitiesme, in Fables Nouvelles, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte (Paris : Gregoire Dupuis, 1719).
Trimmed within plate mark.
Trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 75 x 96 mm; sheet: 83 x 101 mm
Summary
A sacrificial procession of worshippers leading a cat, bound with garlands, to an altar in front of a pedestal (at far left) topped with an effigy of a rat; a man raises an axe to strike down the cat; in the background, a pyramid, obelisk, and temple are visible.
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