Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.
Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.
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Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.

http://data.europeana.eu/agent/137036 · 1698

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Lettering: Dalila scachant que la force de Samson etoit dans ses cheveux l'endort et les luy fait couper apres quoy elle l'expose a la merci de ses ennemis qui luy creverent les yeux ...

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