The medicinal fish looms out of the water at Tobias and the angel. Engraving by R. Pranker, 176-, after B. Picart.

The liver and heart of the fish prove to be beneficial for demonic possession and the gall cures Tobit's blindness. The fish threatened to swallow Tobias (Tobit 6.2), so it may have been a shark

The dog is presented as a faithful companion (5.16), unusually for the Bible

1760-1769

1 print : etching with line engraving ; platemark 28.5 x 18.2 cm

Tobias and the fish. Tobit chap. 6 ver. 2. And when the young man went to wash himself, a fish leaped out of the river, & would have devoured him. B. Picart del. R. Pranker sculp.

Wellcome Collection 20892i