Death of Abimelech in battle (Abimelech saxo percvssvs moritvr)
Abimelech saxo percussus moritur
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 199 x 284 mm. (trimmed inside platemark)
paper
Latin
[Italy]
Numbered at lower right: "15"; at lower right: "ATF"; titled in lower margin at centre: "ABIMELECH SAXO PERCVSSVS MORITVR"; in lower margin at left and right: "Iam cadis, et … femina nomen babet".
Pr. 15 of: Tempesta, Antonio, Scenes from the Old Testament, 20.A.II.115/45-69
Girolamo Casanate, Lugt 4559
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Biblioteca Casanatense
Fondo Stampe e Disegni
20.A.II.115/60
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. 155, n. 250.
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