Ancestors Joseph and Benjamin, The twelve ancestors of Israel (series title), On the left the ancestor Joseph, the eleventh son of Jacob. Joseph is holding a bow and pulling an arrow from a quiver on his back. On the right the ancestor Benjamin, the twelfth and last son of Jacob. Next to Benjamin, a wolf devours a sheep, a reference to Benjamin as a 'ravenous wolf'. Each image has a Latin caption and the magazine contains the eleventh and twelfth prints from a series on the subject of the twelve founding fathers of Israel., print, print maker: Johann Sadeler (I), after design by: Chrispijn van

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