King David is playing the harp as a boy holds open a book of music for him to follow and a woman sits at a writing desk in the background. Engraving by A. van Buysen, ca. 1728.

[Amsterdam?] : [Pieter de Hondt], [1728?]

1 print : engraving ; image 15.8 x 10.4 cm

Quin ipsae stupuere domus, - Virg. Georg. Lib.4:V:491. A. van Buysen f chulp. "Quin ipsae stupuere domus": the halls themselves were astonished, from Virgil, Georgics IV.481, describing how Orpheus charmed the monsters of the underworld with the music of his lyre

Wellcome Collection 33901i