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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd February 5, 1752 according to act of Parliament.
- Call Number:
- Paulson 752.02.05.03.2++ Impression 4
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 36. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The child Moses is being delivered up by his mother Jochebed (who has been acting as wet nurse) to Thermuthis, the daughter of Pharaoh (Exodus, ii.10; after the painting in the Foundling Museum); to right, the mother/nurse is handed coins by a steward as her son clings to her and looks at his adoptive mother warily; to the left, two female attendants, one a Nubian enslaved woman whispers the secret of Moses identity to her colleague. The scene is identified as being in Egypt by a small crocodile and an Egyptian figure with a snake wrapped around its torso beneath the throne; in the left corner an incense burner. In the background are pyramids and a sphinx
- Alternative Title:
- Moses brought before Pharaoh's daughter
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Added title and state from Paulson., 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., Second state with caption. See Paulson., 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 42.1 x 52.3 cm, on sheet 43 x 54.6 cm., and Printed on laid paper.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Geographic):
- Egypt
- Subject (Name):
- Moses (Biblical leader), and Thermuthis (Biblical figure),
- Subject (Topic):
- Nubians, Adoption, Biblical events, Children, Mothers, Pyramids, Servants, Sons, and Sphinxes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses from the original painting in the Foundling Hospital / [graphic]