FREE FROM THE HEART 1777 William Walker - Samuel Wale ANTIQUE ETCHING

Original 1777 10 1/4 inch x 8 inch Etching and engraving titled FREE FROM THE HEART THE WARM IMPRESSION FLOWS, IN LINES UNSTUDY’D, HOLY TRUTHS TO TELL - LET EVERY CHRISTIAN, WHILE HIS BOSOM GLOWS, THINK OF OUR PIOUS JEW; _ AND LIVE AS WELL.

Etched by William Walker (1729 - 1793).

After Samuel Wale (1720 - 1786). An English historical painter and book illustrator.

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 7/8 inch

The etching is in very good condition with slight age related toning. Reverse side blank.