[Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter] [graphic] : from the original painting in the Foundling Hospital / engrav'd by Willm. Hogarth & Luke Sullivan.

Creator:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.

Edition:

[State 4].

Published/Created:

[London] :
[Wm. Hogarth],
published as the act directs, Febry. 5, 1752.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 42.2 x 52.5 cm, on sheet 46.7 x 60.4 cm

Related Links:

http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitemg.asp?itemid=lwlpr30165

Notes:

After Hogarth's 1746 painting: Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter. One of a set of four paintings for the Council Room of the Foundling Hospital.
Title from Paulson.
Fourth state with Warton's lines omitted; second and third 'and' written as ampersands. See Paulson.
Printing date from Paulson.

Abstract:

Pharaoh's daughter (Thermuthis) greets Moses who stands grasping the belt of his birth mother (Jochebed) as a man fills her hand with coins. Behind them in the distance is a sphinx and pseudo-Egyptian buildings. Behind the pharaoh's daugther a black servant whispers into the ear of a female attendant.

Variant Titles:

And the child grew, & she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, & he became her son. And she called his name Moses

Topics:

Biblical events.
Blacks.
Children.
Mothers.
Servants.

Topics:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist, publisher.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Moses--(Biblical leader)
Sullivan, Luke, 1705-1771, printmaker.
Thermuthis--(Biblical figure)

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings--England--London--1752.

Format:

Image

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Hogarth
752.02.05.03.4++
Hogarth 752.02.05.03.4++ Impression 1 Box 305
Hogarth 752.02.05.03.4++ Impression 3 Box 305
Sotheby 36++ Box 310

Orbis Record:

8444447

Yale Collection:

LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr30156

Citation:

Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 193

OID:

15947890

PID:

digcoll:2793027