Original copper engraving with the sacrifice of Noah after the flood: the family slaughters the beasts before the smoking altar while the saved animals crowd around. The Latin caption quotes Genesis: Aedificavit Noe altare Domino, et tollens de cunctis pecoribus mundis obtulit holocausta.
Original copper engraving with the sacrifice of Noah after the flood: the family slaughters the beasts before the smoking altar while the saved animals crowd around. The Latin caption quotes Genesis: Aedificavit Noe altare Domino, et tollens de cunctis pecoribus mundis obtulit holocausta.
It reproduces one of the frescoes of Raphael's Loggias in the Vatican - the Raphael Bible - engraved by Cesare Fantetti for the Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti published in Rome by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1674.
Medium: Etching and engraving.
Artist / after: After Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520).
Engraver: Cesare Fantetti.
Date: 1674.
Source: Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, Gio. Giacomo de Rossi, Rome, 1674; print No. 13.
Dimensions: Sheet 18.9 x 14.6 in (48 x 37 cm).
Condition: The image within the plate mark clean; toned paper with damp stains at the upper left and lower right corners, and a small loss at the left edge, outside the image.