Original etching and engraving with the sale of Joseph to the Ishmaelites, after Raphael's fresco in the Vatican Loggias. At the foot: "Extrahentes eum de cisterna vendiderunt Ismahelitis. Gen. XXXVII". Number 26 in the series, signed "Caes. Fantetus del. sculp.".
Original etching and engraving with the sale of Joseph to the Ishmaelites, after Raphael's fresco in the Vatican Loggias. At the foot: "Extrahentes eum de cisterna vendiderunt Ismahelitis. Gen. XXXVII". Number 26 in the series, signed "Caes. Fantetus del. sculp.".
The series Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, known as Raphael's Bible, translated into print the frescoes Raphael and his workshop painted in the Vatican Loggias. It was published in Rome by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1674, with images by Cesare Fantetti and Pietro Aquila.
Medium: Etching and engraving.
Artist / after: Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), Vatican Loggias.
Engraver: Cesare Fantetti, active in Rome in the last third of the 17th century.
Date: 1674.
Source: Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, Rome, Gio. Giacomo de Rossi, 1674.
Dimensions: Plate mark 9.8 x 11 in (25 x 28 cm); sheet 14.6 x 18.9 in (37 x 48 cm).
Condition: Good condition. Margins with light handling soil and a faint damp ring; within the plate mark clean and well printed, with wide margins.