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Samson killing the Philistines with a donkey's jawbone

Maker

(artist)
1532-1603

(engraver)
1500-1599

(publisher)

Title

Samson killing the Philistines with a donkey's jawbone

Date of Production

1674

Dimensions

Height: 20.9 cm
Width: 28.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2960.118

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 margin: “Nouit Vbi Samson sibi Vincula dira parari, Fugit et osse neci corpora mille dedit. Iudicum. 15. 15. 4 //”; lower margin, typed, later Witt inscription: “Theatrum Biblicum, 1674. M. de VOS //”.

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