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Moses and the Brazen Serpent   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Moses and the Brazen Serpent
Description
English: Moses gesturing with his staff at the brazen serpent, twined around a 'T'-shaped pole, urging those who have been bitten by serpents in the plague set upon them in the desert, to look on it and be cured; Israelites surrounding them, including a woman who holds up her child on the left; tents behind to right; reworked state.
Mezzotint with etching
Depicted people Representation of: Moses
Date 1766-1799 (circa)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 357 millimetres
Width: 255 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
2010,7081.636
Notes

States [recorded in the Lennox-Boyd database] (i) published by Carington Bowles (ii) republished by Roake & Varty; lettered with the title, two quotations: 'And Moses made a serpent ... he lived. // Numbers XXI. 9th,, verse. // And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up. // John III. Chap. 14th. verse.' and 'Printed for & Sold by Roake & Varty, // Map & Printsellers, 31 Strand, London. // 4' [impression with CLB] (iii) reworked, with additional figures and the tents; lettered as (ii)

The plate is listed in Carington Bowles' catalogue for 1790, p. 99 no. 226
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2010-7081-636
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