Caption
Tables of the Law, print, ornamental print, Vignette with the Tablets of the Law in the center, an angel above, surrounded by ornament., printmaker: Bernard Picart, Amsterdam, 1683 - 1733, paper, etching, height 108 mm x width 180 mm, Print originally intended for: Figures de la Bible. Amsterdam, 1720. Print also used in: Scenes of the most important histories of the Old and New Testament ... drawn by the renowned artists Hoet, Houbraken, and Picart ... and expanded with descriptions. The Hague: Pieter de Hondt, 1728. Print may possibly also have been used in other Bibles., foliage, tendrils, branches, ornament, the ten commandments represented together on stone tablets, An ornate symmetrical ink drawing on a pale background featuring a central pair of rounded tablets framed by decorative acanthus leaves and scrollwork, topped by a cherubic face with curled hair and small wings, with elaborate curling tendrils and floral motifs extending outward into mirrored spirals that end in beaded tassels and looping vines, and a dense arrangement of flowing curved lines and leaf-like forms forming a pedestal-like base.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B26_313
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52.8Mb (10.2Mb) / 17.8in x 11.5in / 5353 x 3446 (300dpi)