Original 17th-century etching and burin engraving: Lot and his daughters flee Sodom while the city burns beyond and his wife, looking back, is turned into a pillar of salt. Engraved by Cesare Fantetti after the composition by Raphael Sanzio in the Vatican Loggias.
Original 17th-century etching and burin engraving: Lot and his daughters flee Sodom while the city burns beyond and his wife, looking back, is turned into a pillar of salt. Engraved by Cesare Fantetti after the composition by Raphael Sanzio in the Vatican Loggias.
At the foot, the Latin text taken from Genesis XIX and the number 16. It comes from the Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, the Raphael Bible published in Rome by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1674, with the biblical scenes of the Vatican Loggias.
Medium: Etching and burin on laid paper.
Artist / after: Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520).
Engraver: Cesare Fantetti (1660-1740).
Date: 1674.
Source: Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti..., Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome, 1674; print no. 16.
Dimensions: Sheet 18.7 x 14.6 in (47.5 x 37 cm).
Condition: Toned paper, with tears and losses at the left edge of the sheet and damage in the upper margin; the plate mark complete.