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The Beheading of Jacob

Maker

(artist)
1523-1605

(publisher)
1600-1676

(engraver)
1500-1699

Title

The Beheading of Jacob

Date of Production

1582

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 26.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2958.22

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: lower centre edge within image, black ink: "D. IACOBVS APOSTOLVS HERODIS IVSSV OCCIDITVR. Act.12.2."; lower centre edge, black ink: "Jo. Strada. inue. // Io. Galleus excu. // 22. // Ense iubet tereti caput a ceruice Jacobo // Auferri Herodes, luget Ecclesia, dextras // Inijcit in Petrum, quem carcere claudit aheno, // Quod populo gratum Iudeo nosteret eSe. // Acto. Cap.12.3.".

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