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Cain Killing Abel

1613
17th century
203 x 286 mm (8 x 11.3 in.)

Antonio Tempesta, Italian, (1555–1630)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Etching on white laid paper

Print impression quality: Very good

Series: Number 1 from set of 25 etchings Biblical Battles

Edition: Published by Nicolaus Van Aelst, Rome

Marks: Unsigned

Marks: Watermark: No watermark

Provenance / Collectors' Marks: R.L. Hirschfield (stamped in lower center margin of frontispiece); Conrad Fäsy (bookplate inside cover of album)

Bibliography: Bartsch 236 (vol. 17, p. 129); Illustrated Bartsch 236 (vol. 35, p. 62); see Sue Welsh Reed and Richard Wallace, Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989), 217–221.

Credit Line: Olin Library transfer, 1957

Accession Number: 1957.5.1.2

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battles*, Bible, death, Old Testament, religions, religious art*, series (groups)*, violence*, war*

battles - Use for individual instances of armed conflict between two or more groups. [September 1993 related terms added. December 1992 scope note added. November 1990 descriptor added.]
Bible
death
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.]
violence - The use of physical force so as to kill, injure, damage, or abuse. WCOL9 [February 1993 descriptor moved. May 1991 descriptor added.]
war - From TGM: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/tgm/item/tgm011468

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plate Dimensions: 203 x 286 mm (8 x 11.3 in.)

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Antonio Tempesta, Italian, (1555–1630) . Cain Killing Abel, 1613. From Biblical Battles. Etching on white laid paper. plate : 203 x 286 mm (8 x 11.3 in.). Sheet : 273 x 283 mm (10.7 x 11.1 in.). DAC accession number 1957.5.1.2. Olin Library transfer, 1957.

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