A painting on metal showing Tobias with an angel; on the right a view of the landscape, beyond a large rock in the foreground. According to the story in the Book of Tobit (5.5-6) Tobit's son Tobias meets an angel without realising he is an angel. The angel tells Tobias what to do with a giant fish that Tobias has caught (Book of Tobit, 6.2-9).
Franciscus a Sancta Clara, 1598-1680 Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645
Published / Created:
1632]
Call Number:
Me65 G916 D3G
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
De veritate religionis christianae. English
Description:
Added t.-p. engraved, illus., Printed title-page wanting; title taken from the Folger library card. Subsequently supplied in photostat from copy in New York Society Library., Signatures: 3 l. unsigned, A8B-P12Q8 (Q7 misprinted R; Q8 blank)., and Translated by Christopher Davenport (known as Franciscus a Santa Clara, or Francis Coventry).
Publisher:
Printed by I.H. for Richard Royston, and are to be sold at his shop in Ivy lane next the Exchequer office,
Title devised by cataloger., Woodcut illustrating letterpress title page for: A true discourse of the two infamous upstart prophets, Richard Farnham weaver of White-Chappell, and John Bull weaver of Saint Butolp ..., Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1, no. 134, Subjects represented in the woodcut identified by J. Reed on mounting sheet., and Window mounted to 29 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Printed at London for Thomas Lambert, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Horse-shooe, neare the Hospitall-gate in Smithfield
