A sheet with two copper engravings of 1700 devoted to the prophet Elijah: the captain and his fifty men consumed by fire from heaven (II Kings I) and the chariot of fire that carries Elijah off before Elisha (II Kings II), with the title cartouches in Dutch and French.
A sheet with two copper engravings of 1700 devoted to the prophet Elijah: the captain and his fifty men consumed by fire from heaven (II Kings I) and the chariot of fire that carries Elijah off before Elisha (II Kings II), with the title cartouches in Dutch and French.
From L'Histoire du vieux et du Nouveau Testament, the Bible of Pieter Mortier 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: fair; two small cuts in the lower margin