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The Finding of Moses, or sometimes Moses in the Bullrushes has intermittently been a common subject in art, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

books.google.co.uk/books?id=OD83AQAAIAAJ Roger Adolf d'. Hulst, ‎M. Vandenven, ‎Sir Peter Paul Rubens - 1989 - ‎Snippet view The Finding of Moses: Drawing (Fig. ... The rescue of Moses from the water was regarded as typology for the escape of the child Jesus from the Massacre of the Innocents.1 The pyramidal composition shows Pharaoh's daughter standing in the ...
 * Perugino Sistine Chapel
 * Hebrews 11:23 Paul - only NT ref
 * film
 * -59 Veronese, Origen etc
 * ...Blake repeats the attitude of Christ in The Nativity in the watercolor The Finding of Moses: The Compassion of Pharaoh’s s Daughter (c. 1805, watercolor, 12 3/4 x 12 5/8” {32.4 x 32 cm.}, London,Victoria and Albert Museum), where Moses leaps forth from the bulrushes like the babe in the manger. Moses, of course, is the Old Testament type for Christ as redeemer and liberator from sin. Blake connects through their poses the figures of Moses and Christ as redeemers in, respectively, the Old and New Testaments. This typological dimension is also stressed in the pose of Mary, who leans back supported by Joseph just as the mother of Moses swoons in Blake's Moses Placed in the Ark of the Bulrushes (1824, pen and watercolor over pencil, 11 3/8 x 15 5/8" {28.9 x 39.7 cm.}, San Marino,California, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery). Presumably these visual connections were easier to make when all the Butts series hung together, as we assume they did, in one room. Philly
 * Like christ, threatended by official commands to kill Jewish babies
 * Rubens: the Old Testament - Page 79