Engraving By Johannes Wierix After Maerten De Vos King David And The Israelites Accompany The Ark

by Musical Instruments 16th Century Iconography

$400 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

King David in the foreground dances and plays the harp; others sing and play, horns, viol, and tambourines.Biblical quote from 2 Samuel 6 in Latin to lower margin.: Dauid autem saltabat totis viribus ante Dominum: porro Dauid erat accinctus ephod lineo. Et Dauid, et omnis domus Israel, ducebant arcam testamenti Domini, in iubilo et clangore buccinae. SAMV. LIB. II. CAP. VI. 253 × 202 mm. plus thread margins. A good impression.Minor surface

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