Name: Antique Master Print-ESTHER-KING-AHASUERUS-READING-CHRONICLES-Galle-Heemskerck-1564
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Antique Master Print-ESTHER-KING-AHASUERUS-READING-CHRONICLES-Galle-Heemskerck-1564

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‘CONSULIT ANNALES, FIDO PRAEUNTE ANAGNOST?, / REX, UBI NON HABITUM VIRTUTI DISTRIBUIT HONOREM.’

– King Ahasuerus lies awake in bed. A court servant reads from the chronicles to help him fall asleep. Through the curtain on the right, Haman is seen outside, overseeing the erection of a gallows for Mordecai. The foreground features richly detailed bedding and serving ware.

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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.