Feeding the Hungry

Feeding the hungry as the first of the seven works of mercy. The composition is framed in an architectural border with an arch. Above it, in a cartouche, the title. In the middle, a large table at which people are eating; in the foreground, an old and a young man with baskets of bread. In the background, the miraculous multiplication of loaves (right) and Christ at the meal in the house of Levi the Tax Collector (left). In the border, on the left, Christ in a niche holding a tablet with texts from Luke 3 and Luke 16, and on the right, Isaiah in a niche with a tablet with text from Isaiah 32. In the four outermost corners, scenes from the Old and New Testament related to food. With explanatory texts from the Old and New Testament. Below the composition, four lines of Latin. This print is part of a series of prints on the works of mercy (consisting of a title page and seven numbered prints).