In this composition, Abraham Bloemaert takes up the Flemish tradition of landscape with the figures of Tobias and the Angel on their journey, followed by the faithful dog. They function as staffage, figures added to a beautiful landscape to enliven it, without distracting from it. The setting, with ramshackle farmhouses and flat landscape peering through between them, draws on local Dutch topography, a departure from the tradition of fantasy or idealized landscapes. The vivid first reproduction, by the well-known engraver Boëtius Adams Bolswert, was then copied in etching by the prominent Amsterdam printmaker and publisher Claes Jansz. Visscher, who championed landscape “drawn from life,” as his inscription asserts.