Historiated Headpiece for the Gospel of John

Book Title: La Sainte Bible / traduite en françois sur la Vulgate; avec des notes courtes tirées des SS. Peres & des meilleurs interprétes, pour l'intelligence des endroits les plus difficiles, La traduction du Pseautier selon l'Hébreu à côté de la Vulgate, et La concorde des quatre évangelistes: le tout divisé en trois tomes ...

Author: Bible. French. Le Maistre de Sacy. 1700.

Image Title: Historiated Headpiece for the Gospel of John

Description: At a wedding feast in Cana, servants carry out Jesus’ instruction to fill pitchers with water. Jesus performs his first miracle when he changes this water to wine. Dutch engraver Jacobus Harrewijn (1660-1727) has placed his signature in the top left.

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