Antonio Testa, Claude Gellee dit le Lorrain - David

Magnificent original engraving
Dated 1813, bottom right, followed by the signature of Antonio Testa.

From a painting by Claude Gellee, a well-known and famous painter of the 1600s

This engraving is by Antonio Testa.
Below in the text:
David to whom the three specimens present the desired water from the cistern of Bethlehem.

To Her Excellency Lady Countess Caterina Marconi, born Giustiniani.
In Rome at the engraver’s, on Via della Croce no. 68.

Of large size, it presents small areas eaten by insects; the sheet is attached to another sheet (see photo).
Easily separable in a deacidification bath.
From a private collection, Rome
Francesco Martinelli