Isaac digs open the wells, Aeterni fontes reserati (title on object), Emblemata Sacra è praecipuis utriusque testamenti historiis concinnata (Old Testament) (series title), Imagines et figurae bibliorum (series title), In the foreground, the Israelites dig open the wells that the Philistines had earlier closed out of jealousy. In the background left, Isaac's servants find a spring with clear water. Isaac sits on a stone and discusses with one of the shepherds whose well the found belongs to (Gen. 26:18). With a motto in Latin above the image and a four-line caption in Latin below the print

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