print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1849,0512.803
- Title
- Object: Melchizedek Blessing Abram
- Description
-
King Melchizedek standing under canopy, raised by attendants at right, blessing Abram kneeling in centre of troops in reverence surrounding, a man spilling the contents of his basket in the shadows in the foreground; pyramids in the background; frame surrounding; proof for Boydell's Illustrations of Holy Writ, before letters (Genesis 14:19). c.1814-15
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1814-1815 (circa)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 302 millimetres (sheet)
-
Width: 222 millimetres (sheet)
- Curator's comments
- The plate was later re-published in 1820 by Hurst & Co, with the border cleared, see 1876,0510.692.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1849
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1849,0512.803