Beautiful Engraving
Engraver: Jacob Frey, Swiss (1681 - 1752)
Artist: Domenico Zampieri, known as Domenichino (b. Bologna 1581, d. Naples 1641)

Subject: Esther swooning before King Ahasuerus

Esther swooning before King Ahasuerus who starts up from his throne at the left, after Domenichino;
After one of the pendentives of the Bandini Chapel in San Silvestro al Quirinale in Rome.

School/style: Italian
Date: 1700-1750
Materials: Paper
Technique: etching, engraving

Inscriptions:
Lettered below the image with quotation from the Bible, "Sicut divisiones aquarum, ita cor Regis in manu domini, quocumque voluerit inclinabit illud. proverbiorum 21".
With "Dominichin pinx. / Iacob Frey Inc. Rom.'

Size from the platemark: 39 x 31 cm approx., with extensive margins beyond
Very good condition. No known issues.