Enoch and his family praying before taking a frugal meal outside a farm building while a woman gives alms to poor and lame people who approach the farm. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.
- Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.
- Date:
- 1500-1599
- Reference:
- 43777i
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Bible, Genesis 5.21-24 "And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him."
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[Place of publication not identified] : Jan Sadeler
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1 print : engraving ; platemark 20.3 x 27.4 cm
Lettering
Septima stirpis Adae proles sanctusq(ue) propheta / Exstitit, ante suum domino gratissima raptum. / Plus tria bis numerans Henoch quinquennia vitae / Mathusalam genuit sinceri pignus amoris. Gene:5. I. Sadl. auct. et scalpt. ex. ; M. de Vos figur.
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Wellcome Collection 43777i
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