JEPHTHAH’S RASH VOW 1777 William Walker - Daniel Dodd ANTIQUE ETCHING

Original 1777 10 1/4 inch x 8 inch Etching and engraving titled JEPHTHAH’S RASH VOW

Figures around an altar, women kneeling at the feet of another who stands with hand on chest, as a trumpeter plays at right, elders surrounding and a kneeling nude figure with his hands in the bowl in the left foreground, a guard at right.

Etched by William Walker (1729 - 1793).

After Daniel Dodd. Portrait and flower painter in crayons and miniature, occasionally in oils.

From “The Works of Flavius Josephus. I. The Life of Josephus as written by Himself; II. The Antiquities of the Jewish People, with a defence of those Antiquities, in Answer to Apion; III. The History of the Martyrdom of the Maccabees, and the Wars of the Jews with the Neighbouring Nations till the final Destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman Power; IV. Account of Philo's Ambassy from the Jews of Alexandria, to the Emperor Caius Caligula (1777). Published by Fielding and Walker, London, 1777.
Josephus, Flavius (37 - c. 100), was a first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer, who was born in Jerusalem (then part of Roman Judea) to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.

Image size 5 1/2 inch x 3 3/4 inch

The etching is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.