Artist: Jacques Philippe Lebas (1707-1783), after Jean-Baptiste Martin, known as "Martin des Batailles" (1659 - 1735).
Title: Cérémonies du sacrifice de la vache rousse bruslée hors du camp d'Israël (Sacrifice Ceremonies of the Burned Red Cow outside the Camp of Israel).
Signed and titles in the plate: J. Lebas sculp. Ceremonies du sacrifice de la vache rousse bruslée hors du camp d'Israël. Nomb. XIX.
Dimensions: Image approx. 12" x 17". Sheet 15" x 18".
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 engraving on laid paper.
Watermark: yes.
Mat and Frame: no.
Condition: Torn from the bound volume. Center folded as issued. Minor wormholes to margins and l.m. The left and right margins are 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. 404. Paris, 1728.
Museums and Libraries: Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. 20367.
Note: Book of Numbers, also called The Fourth Book Of Moses, 19.