Tobit and Anna with the Kid
The original, as its museum records it
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Every ruin in this room began with a good deed. Tobit buried the dead the king left in the street; as he slept, a swallow's dung fell into his eyes and blinded him. His once-expensive tabard is in tatters.
Anna weaves for their bread; the kid she carries in is her wages. Hearing it bleat, Tobit says take heed, lest perhaps it be stolen. His hands are folded not in anger but in prayer: he turns from the accusation and asks God for death.
A birdcage hangs by the window. A bird is why he cannot see it.
Sources: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, SK-A-4717, object page · Dossier symbolism section, citing Book of Tobit 2:11-14 and 3:1-6 · Dossier symbolism section, citing Book of Tobit 2:9-10 · Tobias (Tobit) 2:9, Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · Tobias (Tobit) 1:22, Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, SK-A-4717, extended (Dutch) catalogue description
Whereby it came to pass, that she received a young kid, and brought it home:
Tobit 2:20 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 8,276 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.