Tour dé Babel [print] / C.L. Marillier, del ; L Petit Sculp.

Accession number: 
PML 145499, plate 025
Author: 
Petit, Louis, 1760-approximately 1812, engraver.
Published: 
[Paris : s.n., 1789]
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 139 x 89 mm; sheet: 156 x 96 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Published caption title.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499) as plate 25, 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.
Engraving after a design by Marillier for an illustration for "La Sainte Bible" (Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1789), v. 1, p. 33 (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 1r." and "page 33"; lettered below image "C.L. Marillier, del" "1789" "L Petit Sculp."
Library's copy is a proof impression before final lettering, lacking the caption, volume and page number at head.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows laborers and mules in the foreground with wagon carrying vessels, a couple of laborers are carrying vessles on their back in middleground. In the background to the left is the Tower of Babel and to the right a furnace with flame and smoke rising from the top.

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