Samuel Anoints David - Engraving by Pietro Aquila - Raphael Bible, 1674
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Original copper engraving with Samuel pouring the horn of oil over the head of David in the midst of his brothers. The Latin caption quotes the first book of Kings: Tulit Samuel cornu olei et unxit David in medio fratrum eius.
Original copper engraving with Samuel pouring the horn of oil over the head of David in the midst of his brothers. The Latin caption quotes the first book of Kings: Tulit Samuel cornu olei et unxit David in medio fratrum eius.
It reproduces one of the frescoes that Raphael and his workshop painted in the Vatican Loggias - the so-called Raphael Bible - engraved by Pietro Aquila for the Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti that Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi published in Rome in 1674.
Medium: Etching and engraving.
Artist / after: After Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520).
Engraver: Pietro Aquila (c. 1650-1692).
Date: 1674.
Source: Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, Gio. Giacomo de Rossi, Rome, 1674; print No. 41.
Dimensions: Sheet 18.9 x 14.6 in (48 x 37 cm).
Condition: The image within the plate mark clean and well inked, with wide margins; toned paper, with tears and small losses at the upper edge of the sheet and handling marks in the margins, always outside the image.
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Original copper engraving with Samuel pouring the horn of oil over the head of David in the midst of his brothers. The Latin caption quotes the first book of Kings: Tulit Samuel cornu olei et unxit David in medio fratrum eius.