William Hogarth - Print (BM Cc,2.175)

Moses brought before Pharoah's daughter; Moses as a small boy, looking fearfully at the lady, reclining on a dais to left, smiling with open arms, while he clings to the sash of a his wet nurse, who looks back at him sadly, as she is paid by a bearded official; with two servants talking behind the lady's chair, an incense burner, statuette and miniature imagined version of a crocodile beside her seat; in the background, a view with pyramids, sphinx and other buildings; republished state with the quotation from Warton. 1752, this state 1759
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