An original etching and engraving of 1674 with the dream of Joseph: the young man tells his brothers of the vision of the sheaves and that of the sun, the moon and the eleven stars, shown in two medallions above the landscape. At the foot, "Per somnium vidi fratres consurgere manipulum meum et stare vestros... Gen. XXXVII".
An original etching and engraving of 1674 with the dream of Joseph: the young man tells his brothers of the vision of the sheaves and that of the sun, the moon and the eleven stars, shown in two medallions above the landscape. At the foot, "Per somnium vidi fratres consurgere manipulum meum et stare vestros... Gen. XXXVII".
It belongs to the Raphael Bible, "Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti a Raphaele Sanctio Urbinate in Vaticani Palatii Xistis... expressae", engraved after the frescoes of the Vatican Loggie and published in Rome by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi in 1674.
Medium: etching and engraving on laid paper
Artist / after: Raphael (1483-1520), Vatican Loggie
Engraver: Cesare Fantetti
Date: 1674
Source: Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, Gio. Giacomo de' Rossi, Rome
Dimensions: Sheet 18.7 x 14.6 in (47.5 x 37 cm)
Condition: damp staining in the upper and lower margins and handling marks; the image is not affected