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Rebecca, & le Serviteur d'Abraham [print] / B. Picart invenit et sculpsit.

Accession number
PML 140007, no. 269
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam] : [Chez la veuve de Bernard Picart], 1734
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from printed table of contents for "Impostures innocentes."
Numbered "56" within the plate at upper right.
Plate 56, "Rebecca, & le Serviteur d'Abraham," from the published set of 78 numbered prints by Bernard Picart after works by various artists, issued posthumously with the title: Impostures innocentes, ou recueil d'estampes d'apres divers peintres illustres, tels que Rafael, Le Guide, Carlo Maratti, Le Poussin, Rembrandt, &c., gravées à leur imitation, & selon le gout particular de chacun d'eux, & accompagnées d'un Discours sur les préjugés de certain curieux touchant la gravure / par Bernard Picart, dessinateur et gravure: avec son Eloge historique et le Catalogue de ses ouvrages (Amsterdam : Chez la veuve de Bernard Picart, 1734).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 211 x 148 mm; plate mark: 212 x 152 mm; sheet: 250 x 188 mm
Summary
An arched design, showing Eliezer, standing on the right, offering a ring and a necklace to Rebecca; three women standing behind wall and watch the scene on the left.
Classification
Department