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A Florentine picture-chronicle; being a series of ninety-nine drawings representing scenes and personages of ancient history, sacred and profane (1898)

Finiguerra, Maso, 1426-1464, Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 · London, B. Quaritch · leaf 397

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her hand : Isaiah a scroll in one hand and a timber-saw in the other : compare the engraving fi om the same workshop figured below ; which, however, is not from a drawing by our artist, but is adapted from a contemporary German engraving of another subject by the master known as the Master E. S. of… … FIG. 116.— THE PROPHET ISAIAH. 1 The story was that he was sawn in sunder by order of King Manasses (according to some accounts, having first taken refuge in a hollow tree) beside the pool Siloam, and buried under the oat Rogel. Petrus Comestor has it as follows Cumque argument eum prophetac missi…

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