The Travels of the Children of Aegypt through the Red Sea and the Wilderness into Canaan of the Holy Land

Object summary

Title: The Travels of the Children of Aegypt through the Red Sea and the Wilderness into Canaan of the Holy Land
Object ID: AF-MX-5060
Date made: 1720
Place made: United Kingdom
Engraver: Harris, John
Object type: Engraving
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
On view: No

Description

Hand-colored map of the route of passage from Egypt to the Promised Land with each of the encampments noted. The map is decorated with an elaborate title cartouche and a vignette of Jonah and the whale in the middle of the Mediterranean, or the Jonian, Sea.

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: recto bottom right corner
Text: MX 5060

Type: two stamps
Location: verso
Text: Forbes Collection M.I.T.

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Harris, John

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