Title: The Blindness of Tobit: The Larger Plate 
Artist: _ Rembrandt
Category: Old Master
Medium: Etching
Framed: Yes
Height: 6 3/8"
Width: 5 1/16"

c. 1651 Bartsch's first state of two; Usticke's first state of two. A 17th century lifetime impression. Signed and dated in the plate twice Rembrandt f. 1651 lower right and center.

In very good condition.

Tobit had been taken off to exile in Babylon, where he had an accident that left him blind. Despite these afflictions he persevered in his faith. He sent his son Tobias to Media to collect some money owed to him by someone there. The angel Raphael joined him on the journey, and advised him to catch a fish and save its entrails. Again on the advice of Raphael, they broke their journey, and advised him.