[Adam and Eve discover the dead body of Abel]
Sadeler, Jan, 1550-1600?
Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592
[Jode, Gérard de 1509-1591]
print
Print Statement 1
[Gérard de Jode]
(Antwerp]
[c. 1585]
1 print : engraving ; plate mark 203 x 272 mm. on sheet 279 x 358 mm.
paper
Latin
Netherlands
Signed and numbered, in the bottom centre: "Jʃadeler. fecit. 3". In the bottom right corner, on the stone: "Michael de coxcÿ inventor.". In the lower margin: "Heu ʃcelus ante aras et conʃcia ʃacra deorum, Fraterno cæʃus frater ab enʃe iacet. Geneʃ. 4.".
Pr. [11] of: THESAVRVS SACRARVM HISTORIARṼ VETERIS TESTAMẼTI
Biblioteca Angelica 2
Print of the series of 'History of Cain and Abel' of the second edition of "Thesaurus". Statement of print based on Hollstein. In the upper right corner of the sheet: "11" in pencil
Fair
Abel (Biblical figure)Adam (Biblical figure)Eve (Biblical figure)
Biblioteca Angelica
Fondo Antico
RARI.I.7.34,11
Link to mother card
RARI.I.7.34,frontispiece,1-342
Link to album description
RARI.I.7.34
Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, Amsterdam, 1980, vol. XXI, p. 91, n° 49, state I.
Rijksmuseum’s digital copy