print
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.6040-6041
- Description
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Joseph distributing grain in Egypt. Joseph stands on a platform of a palatial building and a servant holds a parasol over his head, he looks aghast at the scene beneath him, below figures pay to receive grain, a woman kneels and offers her necklace besides an old woman and with a crying baby before her, a number of officials sit around a stone desk at left to receive the payment and a scribe writes in his account book, a man lifts with both hands a heavy basket and another ties the neck of a sack with a rope, a man with a turban rides a camel at right surrounded by sheep and cattle, beyond are more buildings and a tall column with a statue; on two separate sheets
Etching
- Production date
- 1613-1650
- Dimensions
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Height: 503 millimetres (total)
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Width: 697 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For impression of first state and comment see S.6039.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Sheepshanks.6040-6041
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.6040