Abraham abandonne son pays [print] / C. P. Marillier inv. ; Dambrun sculp.

Accession number: 
PML 145499, plate 028
Author: 
Dambrun, Jean, 1741- engraver.
Published: 
[Paris : s.n., 1789]
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 137 x 91 mm; sheet: 153 x 95 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Published caption title.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 28, 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. 37 (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 1r." and "page 37"; lettered below image: "C. P. Marillier inv." "Dambrun 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 in the foreground laborers moving large bricks with a foreman on left, with right arm resting on donkey, pointing and giving direction. another group of laborers are draping cloth over canopy frame. Mountains are in the background.

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