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Esau trades Jacob his birthright for food

Maker

(artist)
1532-1603

(engraver)
1629-1658

Title

Esau trades Jacob his birthright for food

Date of Production

c.1580

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 27.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2960.357

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 left corner within image, black ink: ".I."; lower right corner within image, black ink: "ICVisscher excudebat. // i"; lower centre edge, black ink: "Suscipit en Esau rubicundam a fratre polentam, Cui primogeniti tradit habere decus. Genesis.25.". Mount, Recto: lower centre edge, black print: "Theatrum Biblicum, 1674. // M. de VOS (?)".

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