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Figures from the Book of Judges, Samson and Samuel

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1532-1603

(engraver)
1500-1599

(publisher)

(printmaker)
ca. 1530-1581 (Life dates)

After
(designer)
born 1544 or 1549, died 1638 (Life dates)

Title

Figures from the Book of Judges, Samson and Samuel

Date of Production

1674

Dimensions

Height: 21.4 cm
Width: 25.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2960.104

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: within image, upper: “Simson / Samuel. //”; within image, lower: “13 / Iudicum. 14.1. / 14 / 1.Samuel. 3. 19. //”; lower margin: “Mala mille viros Asini qui percutiti unus, / Et mel de caeso dulce leone rapit. / O Samuel salue domini o sancte propheta, / Qui procerum vitas officiumque doces. / 6 //”; lower margin, typed, later Witt inscription: “Theatrum Biblicum, 1674. M. de VOS (?) //”.

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