The plague of the Israelites. Engraving by G. Audran after P. Mignard.
- Mignard, Pierre, 1612-1695.
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The plague described in the Old Testament, II Samuel 24, vv. 10-25. King David, wearing a crown, stands beneath a portico looking up at the angel who pours black miasmata from two jars. "And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house." (II Samuel 24, v. 17)
Raymond Crawfurd, Plague and pestilence in literature and art, Oxford 1914.
In the centre foreground, a man with a bowl tries to catch blood flowing from the armpit of a woman. This appears to refer to the location of the plague bubo in the axilla. Explicit references to the symptoms of bubonic plague in pictures of ancient epidemics are rare; this may be the only one
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