Description
In this page from Walters manuscript W.106 Joseph, the youngest of Jacob's twelve sons was a dreamer, beloved by his father, and hated by his brethren. One day, Jacob, seated on a grand chair as befits a patriarch, said to Joseph, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers, and with the flock; and bring me word again."
Provenance
Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 6, 1903, by purchase [see The Diaries of George Lucas]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Translation] below the image reads: Jacob sends Joseph, his son, to Sichen to his brothers who were guarding the beasts; [Transliteration] Above: iacob ioseph; [Transliteration] Below: iacob enveat ioseph suen fiz en sichen a sas freres q[ui] gardient les bestes.
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1903
