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Allegory of the Psalm of David; Misericordia seated to the left feeding four children with milk from her breast, Truth seated to the right holding an open book in her left hand and her foot resting on a globe, Justice stands behind to the left holding a pair of scales and embracing Peace who stands to the right holding a caduceus
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Allegory of the Psalm of David; Misericordia seated to the left feeding four children with milk from her breast, Truth seated to the right holding an open book in her left hand and her foot resting on a globe, Justice stands behind to the left holding a pair of scales and embracing Peace who stands to the right holding a caduceus

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 10 13/16 × 8 3/8 in. (27.5 × 21.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Orazio Samacchini

1532–1577

Comment on works: religious