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Filio habet genitor conuiuia laeta reuerso [graphic] / Mert. de Vos figurauit ; Crispi. van Passe sculpsit.

Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637, printmaker.; Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603, artist.; Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637, publisher.; Rothschild family, former owner.
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Title
Filio habet genitor conuiuia laeta reuerso [graphic] / Mert. de Vos figurauit ; Crispi. van Passe sculpsit.
Variant title
Hollstein title: Return of the prodigal son
Hollstein set title: Parable of the Prodigal Son
Created/published
[Aachen] : [Crispijn van de Passe], [1589?]
Description
1 print : engraving ; plate mark 231 x 184 mm
Associated name
Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637, printmaker.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603, artist.
Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637, publisher.
Rothschild family, former owner.
Material base
paper
Summary
The return of the Prodigal Son. Wearing rags, he kneels before his father in the middle of a town square. His father embraces him, and a woman rushes out to greet him. In the background, a banquet.
Note
Title from lettering beneath image.

From a set of 6 engravings depicting the biblical parable of the prodigal son.

Plate mark dimensions from Hollstein.
Folger-specific note
Also cataloged as a set.
Cited/described in
Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Crispijn van de Passe de Oude 117
Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Maarten de Vos 586
In
[Parable of the Prodigal Son]
Genre/form
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Germany -- Aachen.

Call number
ART 266- 513 (size S)
Folger-specific note
Trimmed within plate mark and inlaid on larger sheet; faint ink '1224' on back. According to print seller, removed from a 19th-century extra-illustrated bible previously owned by the Rothschild family
Folger accession
266513

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