Adoration du veau d'or [print] / Marillier del. ; Jos. Belling sc.

Accession number: 
PML 145499, plate 131
Author: 
Belling, Josef Erasmus, 1751-1780, engraver.
Published: 
[Paris? : s.n., 1802]
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 132 x 88 mm; sheet: 139 x 95 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Published caption title.
Bound in v. 1 (PML 145499), as plate 131, 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.
A later, reengraved edition of an engraving after a design by Marillier, originally executed for an illustration for "La Sainte Bible" (Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1789), v. 1, p. 327 (facing).
Signed: "Marillier del." and "Jos. Belling sc"; numbered at upper right: "37".
Library's copy is closely trimmed with loss of caption.

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

Print shows a group adults and children dancing and frolicing around the base on tall pedestal displaying a golden calf. To the left at the base of the pedestal stands a man holding a plate as if making an offering to the calf.

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