Accession number
PML 146852.13
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Published as the Act directs, Feb. 5, 1752 [reissue ca. 1762
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
A later 4th state of an engraving originally published in 1752, with Warton's lines omitted,and second and third 'and' written as ampersands in caption; this state ca. 1762. Cf. Paulson.
After Hogarth's 1746 painting: Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter. One of a set of four paintings for the Council Room of the Foundling Hospital.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146852) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
A later 4th state of an engraving originally published in 1752, with Warton's lines omitted,and second and third 'and' written as ampersands in caption; this state ca. 1762. Cf. Paulson.
After Hogarth's 1746 painting: Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter. One of a set of four paintings for the Council Room of the Foundling Hospital.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146852) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Description
1 print : etching & engraving ; image: 385 x 502 mm; plate mark: 422 x 525 mm; sheet: 455 x 625 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Pharaoh's daughter greets the child Moses. He grasps his mother's belt, as a man fills her hand with coins. Behind them in the distance is a sphinx and pseudo-Egyptian buildings. Behind the pharaoh's daugther a black servant whispers into the ear of a female attendant.
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