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Moses Brought to Pharaoh’s Daughter

William Hogarth

Date: 1751
Medium: Various red chalks (one oxidized to black) on cream laid paper
Culture: England
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago

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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