Susanna and the Two Elders. SIMON (John) - engraver.

It is better for me to fall into your hands, and not to do it, then to sin in the sight of the Lord. After Lucas Vorsterman who engraved after Peter Paul Rubens.

Mezzotint. [440 x 290 mm]. Susanna seated by a fountain with one foot in the water leaning forward to cover herself while the two Elders stand behind her pulling away her clothes. (Very good condition). [ebc8162].

[London]: Published and printed by John Simon, [Covent Garden] , c. 1710.

A depiction of the Old Testament story of a woman falsely accused of adultery after two men who after discovering one another spying on her while she bathes, conspire to blackmail her for sex.

A reproduction of Vosterman's engraving (1620) after the now lost Rubens painting dated c.1616. The British Museum holds an impression of Simon's print, museum number: 1850,1109.60.