Antique Print-BENJAMIN TRIBE TAKE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL-Sluiter-de Hondt-1728
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Antique Print-BENJAMIN TRIBE TAKE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL-Sluiter-de Hondt-1728

Print

€75.00

‘THE BENJAMITES FORCIBLY SEIZE THE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL (..).’

– Original antique print illustrating the biblical scene from Judges 21. After a brutal civil war between the tribe of Benjamin and the other tribes of Israel, the Benjamite men were left without wives. Benjamite men capture the dancing women of the Israelites.

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Description

Medium: Engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 25.5 x 40.3 cm (10.04 x 15.87 inch). Image size: 21.5 x 34.7 cm. (8.46 x 13.66 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Minor foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From De Hondt’s ‘Taferelen der voornaamste geschiedenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testament’, published in 1728 in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Text pages included.

Biography engraver: Pieter Sluiter (Sluyter) (1675-1713), Dutch engraver.

Biography artist: Gerard Hoet, the elder (1648-1733) was a Dutch history and genre painter and engraver from Zaltbommel. Pieter de Hondt, Dutch publisher and bookseller (1696–1764).

Additional information

Dimensions 40 × 25 × 1 cm

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