Moses Brought to Pharaoh’s Daughter

Prints and Drawings

1751

William Hogarth
English, 1697–1764

Around 1747 William Hogarth completed a series of history paintings that were much more serious in tone than the satirical works on which he had built his fame. This drawing and Paul before Felix (2011.641) were both likely made after those paintings as studies for engravings. Paul before Felix, showing the apostle’s self-defense, was commissioned for the chapel of Lincoln’s Inn, where lawyers were admitted to the bar. Moses was similarly appropriate for its location, the London Foundling’s Hospital, as it shows the prophet’s mother reluctantly giving him up for adoption.

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Artist: William Hogarth
Title: Moses Brought to Pharaoh’s Daughter
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1751
Medium: Various red chalks (one oxidized to black) on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right center, in red chalk: "W.H. 1751"; lower center at edge, in red chalk: "EXODUS CHIIV [?]…"
Dimensions: 40.6 × 52.5 cm (16 × 20 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.951
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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.

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.

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