Name: Antique Master Print-JEZEBEL-DEATH-HORSE-JEHU-BIBLICAL-Galle-Heemskerck-c.1561
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Antique Master Print-JEZEBEL-DEATH-HORSE-JEHU-BIBLICAL-Galle-Heemskerck-c.1561

€275.00

‘IESABEL PRAECIPITATUR ET PROSTRATO IESRAEL, ET CANES LINGUUNT SANGUINEM EIUS. 1 REG. XI.’

– Jezebel is cast from the window and trampled beneath the hooves of Jehu’s men. On the right, dogs devour her remains as prophesied. Jehu on horseback commands the scene surrounded by soldiers.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 34.5 x 26.8 cm (13.58 x 10.55 inch). Image size: 24.8 x 20.5 cm. (9.76 x 8.07 inch).

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

JEZEBEL, JEHU, DOGS, BIBLICAL PROPHECY, OLD TESTAMENT, HEEMSKERCK, PHILIPS GALLE, JEZEBEL DEATH | PCO-A56-19

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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

Reference: New Hollstein Dutch 137; 39-1(2).

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.