In the background left, Tobit buries the body of the murdered man, found by Tobias in the street. After the burial, Tobit falls asleep on some bags of grain. One of the birds in the nest above his head drops its bird droppings into Tobit's eyes, leaving him blind. In the middle back he gives clothes to the poor and on the right he sits at the banquet. Below in the margin, a one-line caption in Latin from Tobit 2. Tobit's Blindness Story of Tobias , print maker: anonymous, print maker: Cornelis Cort, (attributed to), Maarten van Heemskerck, (mentioned on object), print maker: Low Countries

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Photo credit: © Penta Springs / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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