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Moses Avenging his Countryman

Maker

(artist)
1794-1872

(wood engraver)
born 1830

Title

Moses Avenging his Countryman

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.4 cm
Width: 32.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5867.28

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

Keywords










Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : pencil : upper right margin & recto : : 30 //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right within image : : F.OBERMANN //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin left & recto : : MOSES AVENGING HIS COUNTRYMAN. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : : And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens [colon] and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian. Exod. II.. 11, 12. //

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