Aaron offre divers sacrifices [print] / Marillier inv. ; R. Delvaux ft.

Accession number: 
PML 145500, plate 006
Author: 
Delvaux, Remi-Henri-Joseph, 1748-1823, engraver.
Published: 
[Paris : s.n., 1789]
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 140 x 92 mm; sheet: 153 x 96 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Caption title from "La Sainte Bible".
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 006, of an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145500-06).
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. 2, p. 35 (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 2e." and "page 35"; lettered below image: "Marillier inv." "1791" "R. Delvaux ft."
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 a group restraining a bull as one man cuts the throat of the animal. A dead sheep lies in the shadow of the man. In the middleground, another group ascends a stepped platform from which flames and smoke rise.

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