Amor in Proximum: Good Samaritan Wash Drawing, ca. 1740

A robed figure sits at lower left beside a tall stone column topped with an urn, while travelers pass along a path through a wooded landscape toward a plinth at right. Brown ink wash on a manuscript page, with Latin and German captions beneath the scene referring to neighbourly love and the Samaritan.

Artist

Aspruck, Franz.

Date

1740

Medium

Allegorical drawings Wash drawings

Source

Wellcome Collection

Size

2996 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection