"The parable of the two sons (Matthew, 21:28-32); a bearded man stands at left, commanding his son to attend to an extensive vineyard below a mountain, another boy sleeping with his elbow on a rock at foreground right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to Horneck's Happy ascetick and Master of the vineyard
Description:
Title from text below image, Above title: St. Matthew Ch. 21. Verse 28., Frontispiece to Anthony Horneck's The Happy Ascetick, or, the Best Exercise ... 6th ed. (London : Printed for Samuel Chapman, 1724)., Alternative title suggested in Paulson: The master of the vineyard., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above image: Original., Ms. note in Steevens's hand below image: Master of the Vineyarde. Frontispiece to Horneck's Happy Ascetic, Ms. note below image: See Nichol's Book, 3d Edit, p. 444/ Sold for £2.2.0., and On page 6 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Samuel Chapman
Subject (Name):
Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural equipment, Fathers, Grapes, Parables, and Sons
