Wood engraving on paper
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Illustrations for ‘Dalziel’s Bible Gallery’
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Moses Keeping Jethros Sheep
Presented by Gilbert Dalziel 1924
actions: postures and motions
adults
agriculture and fishing
agriculture, gardening & fishing
animals: mammals
Bible: Old Testament
cloak
clothing and personal items
crook
desert
Exodus, chapter 3
goat
herdsman / herdswoman
herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess
landscape
man
Moses
mountain
objects
people
religion and belief
rocky
sheep
standing
work and occupations
<p>Poynter chose to illustrate the lives of Joseph and Moses for the Bible Gallery. This episode from Exodus shows Moses feeding the sheep of the priest Jethro on Mount Horeb. Poynter shows the moment when God appears to Moses from a thorn-bush, ordering him to go before Pharaoh and demand the release of the Israelites.</p><p>Poynter was a prolific illustrator and worked many of his designs for wood-engravings into large oil paintings. He wrote to Dalziel in 1896 ‘There is no part of my life of the practice of my part to which I look back with greater pleasure’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2008</em></p>
paper print wood engraving
9 August 2004 – 8 August 2005
2005-08-08
1 March 2004
2004-03-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-08-09
19th Century Illustration
Collection based display
Moses Keeping Jethro’s Sheep
image: 181 × 159 mm
Presented by Gilbert Dalziel 1924
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<span class="text7">Poynter chose to illustrate the lives of Joseph and      Moses for the </span><span class="text13">Bible Gallery</span><span class="text7">. This episode from Exodus shows Moses feeding the </span><span class="text14">sheep of the priest Jethro on Mount </span><span class="text7">Horeb. Poynter shows the moment </span><span class="text14">when      God appears to Moses from a </span><span class="text7">thorn-bush, ordering      him to go before Pharaoh and demand the release of  the Israelites.  </span>
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<span class="text7">Poynter was a prolific illustrator and worked many of      his designs for <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/wood-engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Wood engraving'"><span>wood-engravings</span></a> into large oil <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a>. He wrote to      Dalziel in 1896 ‘There is no part  </span><span class="text14">of my      life of the practice of my part to </span><span class="text7">which I look      back with greater pleasure’.  </span>
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actions: postures and motions adults agriculture and fishing agriculture, gardening & fishing animals: mammals Bible: Old Testament cloak clothing and personal items crook desert Exodus, chapter 3 goat herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess landscape man Moses mountain objects people religion and belief rocky sheep standing work and occupations