• Log in
  • E.J. Pratt Library
  •  Browse all items
  • Browse collections
  •  Help
 All resources
Date of Original
User Set
By date

View all results

The Building of the Tower of Babel. 

Full screen preview

Resource tools

Original TIF File

6041 × 9803 pixels (59.22 MP)

51.1 cm × 83 cm @ 300 PPI

91.5 MB Restricted

Original Size JPG

6041 × 9803 pixels (59.22 MP)

51.1 cm × 83 cm @ 300 PPI

15.0 MB Download
Note: For private use only (not for publication). For other purposes, file a request in Request Item page.
Resource details

Resource ID

13076

Access

Open

Title

The Building of the Tower of Babel.

Cataloguing Level

Complete

Date of Original

1792-1793

Special Collection

Bentley-Blake Collection

Format

1 leaf : illustration ; 39 x 24 cm

Storage Location

Rare Books

Notes

Plate opposite page 10: Josephus, Flavius. The whole genuine and complete works of Flavius Josephus. London : Printed for C. Cooke ..., [1792-1793].

The plates are engraved by Grignion (17), Tookey (6), Heath (4), Blake (3), Jas. Neagle (3), Scot (2), Collier (2), Noble (2), Sharp (2), Morris, Smith, Warren, Sparrow, Parker, Warner, Page and Grainger. Illustrators for the plates include C.M. Metz (19), T. West (10), Stothard (5), Luykin (3), Ramberg (3), C. Cooke (2), Corbould, Salvator Rosa, Trepisian, Weston, C. Graves, and Moreau. The remaining ten plates were unsigned.

Includes 3 engravings by William Blake: "The parting of Lot and Abraham, after seperating their flocks, &c." (Metz delin.) (opposite page 13); "The Battle of Ain, & the destruction of the city, by the army of Joshua" (Stothard delin.) (opposite page 64); "The fugitive Shechemites burnt and suffocated in the holds of their retreat by order of King Abimelech" (Metz delin.) (opposite page 76).

Imprint date from Bentley.

See Catalogue Link below for full Victoria University Library catalogue record.

Catalogue Number

Blake no.744

Copyright

Public Domain

Subject

Jews -- Antiquities
Jews -- History

Sequence

0744

Contributor(s)

Josephus, Flavius, author

Permanent Link

http://digitalcollections.vicu.utoronto.ca/RS/?r=13076

Website

http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/collections/special_collections/bentley_blake_collection/

Catalogue Link

https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/1ljrbt7/alma991106036706906196

Item

Art print

Related resources
Herod the... 
The Assassin... 
Magnificent... 
Frontispiece... 
Seventy of... 
Josephus in... 
The Prophet... 
Adad, King o... 
Herod reproa... 
Solomon's... 
Josephus... 
Manasseh... 
King Solomon... 
Ceconia... 
Jerusalem... 
The Fugitive... 
The Men of... 
Manasseh... 
Antigonus... 
Hagar in... 
Zachariah... 
King Solomon... 
King David... 
The Feast... 
Eleazer by... 
Judas Maccab... 
Achar confes... 
Ahab King... 
Death of... 
The Parting... 
The Prophet... 
The Prophet... 
Ten Thousand... 
The Daughter... 
The Egyptian... 
The Triumph... 
Samson... 
King Herod... 
An Accurate... 
The Philisti... 
Destruction... 
Queen Esther... 
The falling... 
King Artaxer... 
The Idolatry... 
Pharaoh and... 
The Combined... 
The Philisti... 
Hilkiah and... 
The Appariti... 
Gideon's... 
An exact... 
The Battle... 
Dagon the... 
Delilah... 
Tyro vindica... 
A Correct... 
Adam and... 
The six... 
 View these resources as a result set
Search for similar resources