[Statue of Moses, from the Tomb of Pope Julius II] [graphic].

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Title: [Statue of Moses, from the Tomb of Pope Julius II] [graphic].
Creator: Beatrizet, Nicolas, 1507?-1570?, printmaker
Contributor: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1520 and 1565]
Publication Place: Italy
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Figure of Moses, on a pedestal in a niche; sitting, looking away to right, right hand twined in his long beared with the wrist resting on a book propped beside him. On the pedestal are three lines of text beginning: Moysis ingens ex marmore simulacrum ...
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Printmaker, place of production, and date range for production from the Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue, museum no.: DYCE.1169.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom right.
Mounted on page 124 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 41.8 x 30 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Art
Etchings Italy 1520
Engravings Italy 1520
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Moses (Biblical leader)
Subject (Topic): Sculpture
Subjects: Moses (Biblical leader) > Art
Sculpture
Italy > 1520
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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