Antiochia – Cassas, Louis François (Azay-le-Ferron, Indre, 1756 – Versailles 1827). (Vue générale de la Ville Antioche.) View of Antiochia, under the Seleukides capital of Syria, “where the first larger parish of Christians outside Palestine was formed, where the name Christians was mentioned first … and where … Paul was ordained”. In the front grazing live stock on the banks of the Orontes. Etching by Antoine Michel Filhol (1759 Paris 1812), completed by Jean Baptiste Tilliard (1740? – Paris 1813). (1799.) Inscribed: Dessiné par L. F. Cassas. / Gravé à l’Eau-forte par Filiol. / Terminé par Tilliard. 29.7 x 46.1 cm.

Painterly  sheet: Filhol “educated himself under Née … especially in landscape. His sheets of this kind are of powerful effect and masterly in the perspective … Some of his etched sheets were … completed by others” (Nagler). – Uncut. – The wide margin negligibly time-marked.
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