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Moses Brought to Pharaoh’s Daughter
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right center, in red chalk: "W.H. 1751"; lower center at edge, in red chalk: "EXODUS CHIIV [?]…"
Provenance
Given by the artist to Dr. Munro. (John?) Greenwood; sold, Apr. 30, 1792, lot 49. W. Willett, 1853. Sold, Christie’s, London, June 17, 1975, lot 58, to P. & D. Colnaghi, London, for Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Publications
A.P. Oppé, The Drawings of William Hogarth (New York, 1948), p. 46. Clovis Whitfield, “William Hogarth’s ‘Paul Before Felix’ at Lincoln’s Inn,” Burlington Magazine 113 (Mar. 1971), p. 213 n. 14. Ronald Paulson, Hogarth’s Graphic Works (New Haven, 1970), p. 218, under no. 193.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William Hogarth / English, 1697–1764
- Date
- 1751
- Medium
- Various red chalks (one oxidized to black) on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 40.6 × 52.5 cm (16 × 20 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.951
More by William Hogarth in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005918
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