The etchings of brothers Lorenzo (Baldissera) Tiepolo and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (nearby) are after two large-scale canvases by their father, which were part of a series of twelve paintings created in the early 1740s to decorate the reception hall of a private palace in Venice. This work drew inspiration from an episode in Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, a sixteenth-century epic poem about the first Crusade. Domenico’s etching shows the moment when the sorceress Armida first encounters the sleeping knight Rinaldo. Subsequently Armida kidnaps Rinaldo and brings him to her magical kingdom. Lorenzo depicts the amorous couple in Armida’s garden; Rinaldo gazes at his reflection in Armida’s eyes, while Armida is bewitched by her reflection in the upheld mirror.