print
- Museum number
- 1842,0806.107
- Description
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Moses, standing on a pillar and holding up the Tablets of the Law, with the Patriarchs, also standing on pillars, surrounding him; tablet-shaped format. c.1540/55
Engraving
- Production date
- 1540-1555
- Dimensions
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Height: 297 millimetres
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Width: 212 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The print has sometimes been included, along with the twenty-three plates illustrating the Apocalypse and some of (or all) the five other tablet-shaped plates, in the 'Apocalypse figurée', first published in 1561.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1842
- Acquisition notes
- 1842,0806.1 to 321 were all purchased from W & G Smith, who had acquired the collection of Joseph Harding, from whom they all came. The acquisition was recommended to the Trustees by Josi on 31 March and 29 April 1841, but only purchased in 1842.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1842,0806.107
