Title: Serpent d'Airain élevé par Moïse dans le Désert. Nomb. XXI. 6 (Serpent of Bronze Raised by Moses in the Desert, Numbers 21).
Dimensions: Approx. Image 11 1/2" x 7 5/8". Sheet 15 1/8" x 9 1/2".
Edition: Calmet, Augustin, 1672-1757. Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, géographique et littéral de la Bible, enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures en taille-douce, qui représentent les antiquitez judaïques. Par le Reverend Pere Dom Augustin Calmet,... Paris, 1722-1728. [Many Illustrations were drawn by J. B. Martin, engraved by Ph. Simonneau, J. Lebas, J. B. Scotin, P. Starckman, and De Beren (University of Leeds)].
Date: 1728.
Materials and Techniques: copper-plate engravings on laid paper.
Watermark: yes.
Mat and Frame: no.
Condition: Wormholes. Torn from the bound volume. The right edge is unevenly cut. A note in pencil on blank verso. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: Calmet, Augustin, 1672-1757. Dictionnaire historique,... Tome. IV, p. 335. Paris, 1728.
Museums and Libraries: Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. 20367.
Note: Book of Numbers 21: 9. So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.