Aaron staying the plague [print] / Isc. Taylor Jun. delt. ; Isc. Taylor sculpt.

Accession number: 
PML 145500, plate 023
Author: 
Taylor, Isaac, 1759-1829, engraver.
Published: 
London : Hurst & Co., 90 Cheapside, Jan. 1, 1820.
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 76 x 101 mm; sheet: 118 x 133 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Caption title.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500), as plate 23, 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.
Designed and engraved by Isaac Taylor as plate XXVII of Boydell's "Illustrations of Holy Writ", originally published: London : Boydell and Co., 1813-1815. This is a later impression for an 1820 edition of Boydell's work, published: London : Hurst & Co., 1820.
Signed and dated within image and lettered with caption: Aaron staying the plague. And he stood between the dead and the living._Numb. 10, v. 48.; with production and publication detail below: Isc. Taylor Jun. delt. Pub. Jan.1.1820. by Hurst & Co.90 Cheapside London Isc. Taylor sculpt.
Library's copy printed on india paper and backed with drawing paper.

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

Print shows high priest Aaron surrounded by a group at left standing amongst the afflicted in a camp with incense burner held aloft.

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