Vos (Maerten de)

depicting the angel sent by God to kill the Assyrians in their camp, from the Second Book of Kings, chapter 19, verse 35, first issued in Antwerp, in 1585, by Gerard de Jode in his ‘Thesaurus Sacrarum Historiarum’, here reissued with an amended title in Visscher’s ‘Theatrum Biblicum’, published shortly after the first Dutch bible, issued unillustrated, to catch the public’s heightened interest in pictorial representations of the scriptures,

engraving on laid paper, 195 x 290 mm. (7 3/4 x 11 1/2 in),