Tobit is cured of his blindness. Etching after G. Zocchi.

Previous title, replaced October 2023 : Tobit is cured of his blindness. Etching.

Tobias' faithful dog is in the bottom-left hand corner

Bible, Apocrypha, Tobit 6-11. The angel had informed Tobias that smoke from cooking a piece of the heart of the fish will cure demoniac possession, while the gall applied to the eyes will cure cataract (Tobit c. VI, vv. 8-9). Tobias, guided by the archangel Raphael, applies the gall to the eyes of his father Tobit, whose sight is restored, while Tobias's mother Anna and a dog look on

1700-1799

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 32 x 21.5 cm

Tunc sumens Tobia de felle piscis linivit occulos patris sui. Statimque visum recepit. Et glorificabant Deum. Tob. Cap. XI. vers. 13

Duplicate record: may be merged with Wellcome Collection 16385i

The same composition by Giuseppe Zocchi was engraved by Joseph Wagner in Venice, but with different lettering

Wellcome Collection 20903i