Accession number:
PML 145499, plate 036
Published:
ca. 1813.
Description:
1 drawing.
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title from caption title of published illustration.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 36, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Drawing inlaid in leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Drawing by Isaac Taylor jr. for an engraving for plate X of Boydell's "Illustrations of Holy Writ", originally published: London : Boydell and Co., 1813-1815.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Drawing illustrates Genesis, chapter 14, verse 19, and shows kneeling figure in white robe with dark drape over shoulders and back located in the right foreground. Three angels in robes stand back-to-back in middle ground, the angel closest to kneeling figure has both hands extended out towards him.
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