The league between David and Jonathan.

Hand-coloured engraving, 35,5 x 49,5 cm, laid paper, signed in the plate at bottom right: "Jacobus Saverius invent. CJVisscher Excudit." (text in lower margin cut, vertical crease at centre).

Under passe-partout and wooden frame (not studied outside frame). Carefully coloured by hand.

Engraving of the league between David and Jonathan as described in 1 Samuel 20:18-42. The figures at left after an engraving by Aegidius Sadeler after Maarten de Vos. The landscape after Jacob Savery. Claes Jansz. Visscher published large biblical prints on so-called royal-size paper. The plates were reused by his son and grandson Nicolaes Visscher I and II in their royal-size picture Bible, the "Historiae Sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti", of which an example is in London (British Museum, inv. 1939,0130.1.1).
Ref. Hollstein XXIII.208.1. - Hollstein XLIV.32.101, copy a.