Jacob's Flight from Laban - Fantetti Etching after Raphael - 1674
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Original etching and engraving with the flight of Jacob, returning to his father's house with his wives, children and flocks on camelback, after Raphael's fresco in the Vatican Loggias. At the foot: "Impositis liberis et coniugibus super camelos, gregibusq. abductis, remeat Iacob ad patrem suum. Gen. XXXI". Number 29 in the series.
Original etching and engraving with the flight of Jacob, returning to his father's house with his wives, children and flocks on camelback, after Raphael's fresco in the Vatican Loggias. At the foot: "Impositis liberis et coniugibus super camelos, gregibusq. abductis, remeat Iacob ad patrem suum. Gen. XXXI". Number 29 in the series.
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 9.4 x 10.6 in (24 x 27 cm); sheet 14.6 x 18.9 in (37 x 48 cm).
Condition: Good condition. Light handling soil and a damp ring in the margins; within the plate mark clean and crisply printed, with wide margins.
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Original etching and engraving with the flight of Jacob, returning to his father's house with his wives, children and flocks on camelback, after Raphael's fresco in the Vatican Loggias. At the foot: "Impositis liberis et coniugibus super camelos, gregibusq. abductis, remeat Iacob ad patrem suum. Gen. XXXI". Number 29 in the series.