Moses and the Burning Bush

Moses and the Burning Bush. Apparuit Dominus in flamma ignis de medio rubi. CHAPERON, Nicolas (1612-1656), after RAPHAËL (1483-1520). Etching and engraving, Rome, 1649. Sheet size: 36.5 x 46.5 cm. Plate mark size: 24 x 27.2 cm. Etching and engraving on watermarked laid paper. Fine impression, well inked with wide margins. Print signed in the plate, R.V.I. (Raphael Urbinas Inventor) and N.C.F. (Nicolas Chaperon Fecit), This remarkable composition, engraved by Nicolas Chaperon after Raphael's biblical frescoes preserved in the Vatican Loggias, depicts the divine apparition to Moses before the burning bush, a major episode from Exodus foretelling the prophet's mission.