‘LITERAS NABOTHI INSIDIOSAS SCRIBIT IESABEL AD PRIMORES CIVITATIS’

– Jezebel, standing at a table surrounded by scribes and attendants, dictates a deceitful letter to the city’s elders, sealing it with the royal signet as instructed in the biblical account. On the right, noblewomen stand in the background.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 33.5 x 26.8 cm (13.19 x 10.55 inch). Image size: 24.6 x 20 cm. (9.69 x 7.87 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Wide margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

JEZEBEL, NABOTH, JEZEBEL LETTER, OLD TESTAMENT, 1 KINGS, HEEMSKERCK, PHILIPS GALLE, HIERONYMUS COCK, BIBLICAL INTRIGUE | PCO-A56-19

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From the history of Achab and Nabot series, published by Hieronymus Cock, ca. 1561.

Reference: New Hollstein Dutch 35-1(3); New Hollstein Dutch 133.

Early edition.

Biography engraver: Philips Galle (1537-1612) was a leading Dutch engraver and print publisher active in Haarlem and later Antwerp, known for reproducing the works of Heemskerck and others.

Biography artist: Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), Dutch Mannerist painter and draughtsman, famed for his religious compositions and Roman sketchbooks; influential through prints after his work.