The Good Samaritan Tending the Traveller's Wounds with Oil and Wine or The Priest and the Levite Passing, from "The Parable of the Good Samaritan"

Heinrich Aldegrever

1554 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints

The Good Samaritan Tending the Traveller's Wounds with Oil and Wine or The Priest and the Levite Passing, from "The Parable of the Good Samaritan" — Heinrich Aldegrever

At left, the Good Samaritan leans to tend to the traveller. In the background at center, a Levite with a book walking right towards a priest. Plate 2 from a series of four engravings depicting Luke 10:30–35.

Artist: Heinrich Aldegrever
Date: 1554
Medium: Engraving
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957