Abraham liberating his nephew (Abraham Loth ab hostibvs eripit)

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Title: Abraham liberating his nephew (Abraham Loth ab hostibvs eripit)
Varying form of Title: Abraham Loth ab hostibus eripit
Engraver: Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630
Printer/Publisher: [Aelst, Nicolaus van, c.1527-1612]
Other personalities: [Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1590-1621] (dedicatee)
Medium: print
Name of publisher: [Nicolaus van Aelst]
Place of publication: Rome]
Date of publication: [1613]
Physical description: 1 print : etching on sheet 201 x 285 mm. (trimmed inside platemark)
Materials: paper
Language: Latin
Country: [Italy]
Inscriptions: Numbered at lower right: "2"; at right from numbering: "AT TE"; titled in lower margin at centre: "ABRAHAM LOTH, AB HOSTIBVS ERIPIT"; in lower margin at left and right: "Fratri frater opem … strage triumphat amor".
Annotations: Pr. 2 of: Tempesta, Antonio, Scenes from the Old Testament, 20.A.II.115/45-69
Collectors' marks: Girolamo Casanate, Lugt 4559
Conservation: good
Personal Name: Abraham
Location: Biblioteca Casanatense
: Fondo Stampe e Disegni
: 20.A.II.115/47
Series: Link to mother card
Series' component: 20.A.II.115/45-69
Album: Link to album description
Album's component: 20.A.II.115
Bibliography: The Illustrated Bartsch, New York 1983, vol. 35 commentary 1, p. 140, n. 237.
Link: Collectors' marks url

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