Print Description
Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Gothic P.
Sheet size: 24.8 x 20.4 cm (9.76 x 8.03 inch). Image size: 24.8 x 20.4 cm. (9.76 x 8.03 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Trimmed to plate close to platemark. Small tear in left paper edge, backed. Light paper loss in margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
ESTHER, AHASUERUS, HAMAN, MORDECAI, OLD TESTAMENT, COURT SCENE, SLEEPLESSNESS, CHRONICLES, BIBLE ILLUSTRATION, BOOK OF ESTHER | PCO-A56-20
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Plate 6 from The Story of Esther, engraved by Philips Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck. Text by Hadrianus Junius.
Reference: New Hollstein Heemskerck 156; Galle 54-2(3).
Early edition.
Biography engraver: Philips Galle (1537-1612), prominent Antwerp engraver and publisher. A key figure in the print trade, known for religious and allegorical subjects after prominent Northern artists.
Biography artist: Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), Dutch Mannerist painter and draftsman. Trained in Haarlem, he traveled to Italy and returned with a style influenced by the antique and Raphael.
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