Antique Bible Print of the Tower of Babel

Antique print titled 'De Tooren van Babel'. The Tower of Babel narrative in Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth and parable meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. This print originates from ‘Biblia Sacra, dat is, de H. Schriftuer van het Oude, en het Nieuwe Testament, naer de laetste Roomsche keure der gemeine Latijnsche overzettinge, in nederduitsch vertaeld (...)’ Utrecht, Hermanus Besseling, 1743.

Condition: Fair/good. Original folding line. General age-related toning. Shows wear and soiling. Please study image carefully.

Date: 1743

Overall size: 45.5 x 39.2 cm.