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Moses erecting the serpent in the desert

Maker

(artist)
1619-1690

(engraver)
1714-1759

Title

Moses erecting the serpent in the desert

Date of Production

1758

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.7 cm
Width: 14.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2933.44

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper centre within frame of image & recto : : Serpens aeneus / in deserto erectus. Num. XXI. v. 6-9. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : C. le Brun pinx. P. A. Kilian. exc. A. V. / Sicut Moyses exaltavit serpentem in deserto; eta exalta- / ri oportet filium hominis, Io. III. v. 14. / Die ausgestescste Schlang, ist Frael das leben, / Dencf an den Creuzesbaum, der fan das Leben geben. //

Inscription: inscription : written : lower right margin & recto : : original picture in / Bristol. //

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower left margin & recto : : Kilian, Index Pict. Chalc. 1758 //

Inscription: inscription : written : lower left margin & recto : : also copied by andsan //

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