A sheet with two copper engravings of 1700: above, David takes the spear and the jar of water by night from Saul's camp (I Samuel XXVI); below, David defeats the Amalekites who had sacked and burned Ziklag (I Samuel XXX). Title cartouches in Dutch and French, lettered "P. Mortier Exc. cum Privil.".
A sheet with two copper engravings of 1700: above, David takes the spear and the jar of water by night from Saul's camp (I Samuel XXVI); below, David defeats the Amalekites who had sacked and burned Ziklag (I Samuel XXX). Title cartouches in Dutch and French, lettered "P. Mortier Exc. cum Privil.".
From L'Histoire du vieux et du Nouveau Testament, the Bible of Pieter Mortier (Leiden, 1661 - Amsterdam, 1711), printed in Amsterdam in 1700 with more than four hundred copper-engraved figures.
Medium: copper engraving
Publisher: Pieter Mortier, Amsterdam
Source: L'Histoire du vieux et du Nouveau Testament
Date: 1700
Dimensions: 7.9 x 13.0 in (20 x 33 cm)
Condition: good