Moses Brought to Pharaoh's Daughter
1752
Artist, English, 1697 - 1764
Artist, Irish, 1705 - 1771
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving and etching on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 42.6 x 52.7 cm (16 3/4 x 20 3/4 in.)
sheet: 45.5 x 61.8 cm (17 15/16 x 24 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1991.203.18
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Catalogue Raisonné
Paulson 1965, no. 193, State ii/iv
Artwork history & notes
Bibliography
1965
Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. Rev. ed., 1970.
Inscriptions
across bottom plate: And the child grew & she brought him unto Pharaohs daughter & he became her son. And she called his name Moses / From the Original Painting in the Foundling Hospital Engrav'd by Willm Hogarth & Luke Sullivan, / Published as the Act directs Febry. 5.1752.
Wikidata ID
Q74896164