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The Ten Commandments; VII Thou Shalt not commit adultery

Maker

(artist)
1532-1603

(engraver)
1600-1676

(publisher)
1560-1618

Title

The Ten Commandments; VII Thou Shalt not commit adultery

Date of Production

1674

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 24.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2957.78

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper centre edge within image, black ink: "PRAECEPTVM VI. // NON MAECHABRIS"; lower centre edge within image, black ink: "M. de Vos. inven. Ioan. Collaert Sculp."; lower centre edge, black ink: "VI. Et ecce unus de filys Israel intravit coram fratribus suis ad scortum Madianitidem vidente Moyse, et omni turba filiorum Israel, qui // flebant ante fores tabernaculi. Quod cum vidisset Phinees filius Eleazari filij Aaron sacerdotis, surrexit de medio multitudinis, et arrepto pugione // ingressus est post virum Israelitem, in lupanar, et persodit ambos simul, virum silicet et mulierem in locis genitalibus. Numeri 25.6.". Mount, Recto: lower left edge, black print: "Theatrum Biblicum, 1674.".

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