Elijah and the Chariot of Fire - Mortier Bible Copper Engravings - 1700
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A sheet with two copper engravings of 1700 on the prophet Elijah: above, the captain and his fifty men consumed by fire from heaven (II Kings I); below, the chariot of fire that carries Elijah off before Elisha (II Kings II). Title cartouches in Dutch and French.
A sheet with two copper engravings of 1700 on the prophet Elijah: above, the captain and his fifty men consumed by fire from heaven (II Kings I); below, the chariot of fire that carries Elijah off before Elisha (II Kings II). Title cartouches in Dutch and French.
From L'Histoire du vieux et du Nouveau Testament, the so-called Mortier Bible, printed in Amsterdam in 1700 by Pieter Mortier (Leiden, 1661 - Amsterdam, 1711) with more than four hundred copper-engraved figures, one of the most ambitious illustrated Bibles of Dutch engraving.
Medium: copper engraving
Publisher: Pieter Mortier, Amsterdam
Source: L'Histoire du vieux et du Nouveau Testament
Date: 1700
Dimensions: 10.2 x 16.7 in (26 x 42.5 cm)
Condition: good; paper somewhat toned at the edges
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A sheet with two copper engravings of 1700 on the prophet Elijah: above, the captain and his fifty men consumed by fire from heaven (II Kings I); below, the chariot of fire that carries Elijah off before Elisha (II Kings II). Title cartouches in Dutch and French.