Absalon est tué [print] / C.P. Marillier inv. ; E. De Ghendt. sculp.

Accession number: 
PML 145500, plate 124
Author: 
Ghendt, Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de, 1738-1815, engraver.
Published: 
[Paris : s.n., 1791]
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 138 x 90 mm; sheet: 148 x 96 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Published caption title.
Bound in v. 2 (PML 145500) as plate 124, 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. 3, p.325 (facing).
Numbered at head: "Tom. 3e." and "page 325"; lettered below image: "C. P. Marillier inv." "E. De Ghendt. 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 Absalon subspended from a tree with a staff protruding from his chest. A solider, standing at the base of the tree to his right, is preparing to stab Absalon with a spear.

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