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Samuel anointing David

Maker

After
(artist)
1532-1603

(printmaker)

(publisher)

Title

Samuel anointing David

Date of Production

1580 - 1590

Dimensions

Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 26.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2725

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords













horn jug

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower, within image: “Martin De Vos figur J Sadeler auctor et excu Palaestra //”; lower margin: “PATIENTIAE DAVIDIS REGIS ET PROPHETAE IN ISRAEL: FONS ET SCATVRIGO PSALTERII, / In quo se ad preces DEO fundendas ad Spem corroborandam, Gratesq pro beneficus agaendas, Vates ille Regius et sancto plenus Spiritu maganimiter exercuit / Rex hominum Diuumq pater, qui Sceptra tuetur, / TranStulit imperium Saule superbe tuum / Quiq suos inter fratres sine honore putatur, / Davides Iudae sceptra regenda capit. / Inueni David seruum meum oleo. / Sancto meo unxi eum. Spl.88. / Catabo et psalmum dicam Domino. ps.96//”.

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