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Image: Cyrus Showing Bel and His Food to Daniel

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Cyrus Showing Bel and His Food to Daniel

1565
16th century
205 x 247 mm (8.1 x 9.7 in.)

Philip Galle, Dutch (Flemish), (1537–1612)
After Maerten van Heemskerck, Dutch, (1498–1574)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Engraving on laid paper
State: First of three states
Print impression quality: Excellent
Series: Number 2 from set of ten engravings The Story of Daniel, Bel, and the Dragon
Edition: Published by Hieronymus Cock, Antwerp, first edition of four
Marks: Inscribed in plate, lower left: “Martinus van heemskerck inventor .H. Cock excu.2.”; numbered lower right
Marks: Watermark: Indecipherable right side
Provenance / Collectors' Marks: Penciled numbers upper right, possibly by a 19th-century collector
Bibliography: New Hollstein 227 (part 1, p. 191); H. 535 (vol. 8, p. 247).
Credit Line: Purchase funds, 1960
Accession Number: 1960.30.1.2

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This object has the following keywords:
  • allegory
  • food - Use for any material that can be digested or absorbed by the body of a human or other animal and used as a source of energy or some essential nutrient, to build and replace tissue, or to relieve hunger. [April 1995 descriptor changed, was "foodstuff"; lead-in terms added.]
  • mythology
  • 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: 205 x 247 mm (8.1 x 9.7 in.)

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