Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.

  • Verdier, François, 1651-1730.
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1698
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18454i
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Histoire de Samson
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Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Bible. O.T. Judges 16.19

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Paris (Rue St. Jacques aux deux pilliers d'Or avec privilege du Roy) : F. Chereau, graveur du Roy, 1698.

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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 16.1 x 21.3 cm.

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Dalila scachant que la force de Samson etoit dans ses cheveux l'endort et les luy fait couper apres quoy elle l'expose a la merci de ses ennemis qui luy creverent les yeux ... Lettering continues: Cum intellexisset Dalila maximam fortitudinem Samson in ejus crinibus esse eos illi sopito tonderi jubet. quo facto comprehensus est ab hostibus qui statim eruerunt oculos ejus. Inv. et dessine par F. Verdier et gravé par J.B. de Poilly

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Wellcome Collection 18454i

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