[Moses] [graphic]

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Title: [Moses] [graphic]
Creator: Bisschop, Jan de, 1628-1671, printmaker
Contributor: Doudijns, Willem, 1630-approximately 1697, artist.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, sculptor.
Published / Created: [1671]
Publication Place: Hague
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Moses sitting looking at left, he is wearing a garment, at right a book under his arm; after Michelangelo."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed with the monogram of printmaker Jan de Bisschop. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1896,0528.1.15.
Place and date of publication from the volume in which the print was published.
Plate from: Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum. Hagae-Comitis, 1671.
Plate numbered "15" in upper right corner.
Mounted on page 140 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.5 x 12 cm, on sheet 24.2 x 13 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Pictorial works
Book illustrations
Etchings Netherlands Hague 1671
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Moses (Biblical leader)
Subject (Topic): Sculpture
Subjects: Moses (Biblical leader) > Pictorial works
Sculpture
Netherlands > Hague > 1671
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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