, Antique Master Print-AHASUERUS-HAMAN-DECREE-JEWS-ESTHER-Galle-Heemskerck-1564, Pictura Antique Prints
, Antique Master Print-AHASUERUS-HAMAN-DECREE-JEWS-ESTHER-Galle-Heemskerck-1564, Pictura Antique Prints

Antique Master Print-AHASUERUS-HAMAN-DECREE-JEWS-ESTHER-Galle-Heemskerck-1564

Print

€275.00

‘IN RECUTITAM ODIUM GENTEM HAMAN UT EXCIPET ATROX, / ILLORUM IN IUGULOS EDICTUM SANCIT ACERBUM.’

– King Ahasuerus in elaborate royal attire gestures with a sceptre, standing beside Haman in armor, issuing the decree for the destruction of the Jews. At left, a banquet; in the background, a crowd and a town.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Hand.

Sheet size: 24.9 x 20.3 cm (9.8 x 7.99 inch). Image size: 24.9 x 20.3 cm. (9.8 x 7.99 inch).

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

ESTHER, AHASUERUS, HAMAN, PERSECUTION, OLD TESTAMENT, MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK, PHILIPS GALLE, ENGRAVED PRINT, 16TH CENTURY, BIBLICAL | PCO-A56-20

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Plate 3 from The Story of Esther, engraved by Philips Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck.

Reference: New Hollstein Heemskerck 153; New Hollstein Galle 51.

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.

Additional information

Dimensions 20 × 24 × 1 cm

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