Emisit eum Dominus Deus de paradiso voluptatis, ut operaretur terram, de qua sumptus est, Gen. 3 [graphic] / H.B. i. [center plate] ; W.H. [center plate] ; Ab. à Dvpenbeché inu. [border] ; W. Hollar fecit [border].

Emisit eum Dominus Deus de paradiso voluptatis, ut operaretur terram, de qua sumptus est, Gen. 3 [graphic] / H.B. i. [center plate] ; W.H. [center plate] ; Ab. à Dvpenbeché inu. [border] ; W. Hollar fecit [border].

Pennington item title: Paradise lost
Pennington set title: Dance of death

Paris [France] : Chez N. Pitau, rue St. Jacques proche les Mathurins, [ca. 1680]

1 print : etching ; exterior platemark 115 x 93 mm

paper

Center plate: A fiddling skeleton on right precedes Adam and Eve fleeing to right and chased by an angel with a sword in an oval of light in the clouds above.--From Pennington.

Border: An architectural frame with two bearded old men as caryatids, each holding a large orb surmounted by a cross and with a string of jester's bells draped over it. At top is a skull and hour-glass, with a small boy at each side. At bottom is a skull with cross-bones in the center and a small boy with an hour-glass on each side.--Adapted from Pennington.

This print was made with two separate plates - one for the central scene and one for the decorative border.

While published around 1680, the plates were originally made in 1651 (see introduction to Pennington 233-266 for a history of this set of prints).

Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 234 (center plate), 233A (border)

France -- Paris.

ART Box H737.5 no.23 pt.1b (size L)

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