Cain about to kill Abel (Cainvs fratri necem molitvr)
Cainus fratri necem molitur
Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630
[Aelst, Nicolaus van, c.1527-1612]
[Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1590-1621] (dedicatee)
print
[Nicolaus van Aelst]
Rome]
[1613]
1 print : etching on sheet 201 x 287 mm. (trimmed inside platemark)
paper
Latin
[Italy]
Numbered at lower right: "1"; titled in lower margin at centre: "CAINVS FRATRI NECEM MOLITVR"; in lower margin at left and right: "Siccine cognatum ferro … tertia caesa cadat".
Pr. 1 of: Tempesta, Antonio, Scenes from the Old Testament, 20.A.II.115/45-69
Girolamo Casanate, Lugt 4559
good
Biblioteca Casanatense
Fondo Stampe e Disegni
20.A.II.115/46
Link to mother card
20.A.II.115/45-69
Link to album description
20.A.II.115
The Illustrated Bartsch, New York 1983, vol. 35 commentary 1, p. 139, n. 236.
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