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'Philip Baptizing the Eunuch'
Landscape with Saint Philip baptizing the Eunuch of the Queen of Ethiopia; episode from the New Testament.
Saint Philip was instructed by an angel to travel southward into the desert along the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. On his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, the treasurer to the Ethiopian queen Candace. Philip converted the eunuch with his preaching and baptized him in a river.
Saint Philip was instructed by an angel to travel southward into the desert along the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. On his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, the treasurer to the Ethiopian queen Candace. Philip converted the eunuch with his preaching and baptized him in a river.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAH6135 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Browne, John; Gresse, J. Boydell, John Both, after Jan Dirksz Both, after Andries |
| Date made: | 1 February 1772 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Herschel Collection |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 490 x 611 mm |