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Image: Saul Casting a Javelin at David

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Saul Casting a Javelin at David

ca. 1556
16th century
204 x 250 mm (8 x 9.8 in.)

Anonymous,
After Maerten van Heemskerck, Dutch, (1498–1574)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Engraving on white laid paper
State: First of three states
Print impression quality: Excellent
Series: Number 10 from set of ten engravings The Story of David and Saul
Edition: Published by Hieronymus Cock, Antwerp; first edition of four.
Marks: All plates for “The Story of David” are numbered lower left; only the first plate is inscribed with the names of Heemskerck and Cock.
Marks: Watermark: Indecipherable right side
Provenance / Collectors' Marks: Penciled numbers upper right, possibly by a 19th-century collector
Bibliography: New Hollstein 103 (part I, 99); the set is Hollstein 491–500 (vol. 8, p. 247).
Credit Line: Purchase funds, 1960
Accession Number: 1960.30.2.10

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This object has the following keywords:
  • Bible
  • Old Testament
  • religions
  • religious art - Use broadly for art depicting religious subjects or for art used in worship. [September 1993 descriptor added.]
  • series (groups) - Use for related publications issued successively, especially those bearing a collective as well as an individual title; and, in the visual arts, for groups of works by a single artist having a specific and purposeful relation among the works. [March 1993 descriptor changed, was 'series'; alternate term added; descriptor moved. January 1991 scope note added.]

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  • plate Dimensions: 204 x 250 mm (8 x 9.8 in.)

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