See Genesis ix.

The scene in which Noah is represented as cursing his second son is ably conceived, representing the pastoral simplicity of the time effectively--the prominent grouping, iIn the foreground, of the principal characters in the history, conforming Itself to the spirit of the incident. Noah, with arm uplifted, hurls the dread malediction upon his son, while on either side, in attitudes of wonder, grief and acquiescent condemnation, Shem and japheth, with their wives, look on. The flying family of Ham, his stricken partner, with back-ward look of pain regarding her lost companions, the wondering children and the shrinking; form of the culprit, are an admirable culmination of the description of the tale.