Moses sees the Promised Land from the top of Mount Abarim and dies. 1801. Unpainted. Sketch: oil on canvas. Height: 50.2 cms (19.7 ins); width: 73 cms (28.7 ins). Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City.
Phillip Medhurst
Wisdom from a Gnostic Sage
Tag: Bible
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Moses showing the Brazen Serpent. 30 August 1793. Print. Line engraving, engraved by John Hall. Published by Thomas Macklin. 310 mm x 247 mm. Royal Academy of Arts collection.
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Moses Showing the Brazen Serpent. Signed and dated 1787 21 x 13 ins (53 x 32cms). Black chalk drawing on sheet of buff paper. Current location unknown. It appears to be a preparatory study of a large scale oil painting subsequently engraved for the Macklin Bible. The location of the painting is unknown. Together with […]
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Moses showing the Brazen Serpent to the infirm to be healed. c1790. Oil on canvas.148 x 115 ins. War Memorial Chapel. Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A.
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Moses consecrating Aaron and his sons to the priesthood. c1795. Location of finished painting unknown. Oil sketch: 1795. Oil on canvas. 37.5 x 28.8 ins. Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A. War Memorial Chapel.
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Moses receiving the Laws on Mount Sinai. 1784. Oil on canvas; 548.6 x 373.3 cm. Parliamentary Art Collection, Palace of Westminster, London. This nearly 18-foot-tall painting was a huge undertaking accomplished with help from Gilbert Stuart and John Trumbull — both of whom are in the composition — who were then studying with West in […]
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Moses destroying Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea. c1792. Location of finished painting unknown. Sketch: oil on canvas. 96.8 x 76.2 cms (38 1/8 x 30 ins). The Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Jacob blessing Ephraim and Manasseh the sons of Joseph. 1766-68. Oil on canvas. 39 7/8 × 51 ins (101.3 × 129.5 cms); frame: 47 5/8 × 58 7/8 × 3 ins (121 × 149.5 × 7.6 cms). Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, U.S.A.
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Jacob tending Laban’s sheep. Painting. Location unknown.
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Jacob tending Laban’s sheep. Lithograph after the original drawing of the same subject by Benjamin West in the Prints Division of the New York Public Library, which is signed and dated, “B. West 1783”. (The lithograph was possibly intended for inclusion in the album “Specimens of Polyautography of 1803”.) Morgan Museum and Library, New York.
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