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Dum letus celebrat Bacchi conuiuia Nabal, hunc subito adueniens mors inopia rapit. Reg. cap. 25 [graphic].

Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603, artist.; Jode, Gerard de, approximately 1516 or 1517-1591, publisher.
1585
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Title
Dum letus celebrat Bacchi conuiuia Nabal, hunc subito adueniens mors inopia rapit. Reg. cap. 25 [graphic].
Variant title
Hollstein title: Nabal's feast
Edition
[State 2 of 3].
Created/published
[Antwerp] : [Gerard de Jode], [1585]
Description
1 print : engraving ; plate mark 194 x 256 mm
Associated name
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603, artist.
Jode, Gerard de, approximately 1516 or 1517-1591, publisher.
Material base
paper
Summary
Nabal seated at a feast; a servant to his left pours him wine and other figures are eating and conversing. In the background, to viewer's left, Nabal's funeral procession, including figures carrying his coffin.
Note
Title from item.

State from Hollstein.

Numbered "4" in plate, lower right corner.

One of four prints depicting scenes from 1 Samuel 25, after designs by Maarten de Vos.

Prints were included in Gerard de Jode's Thesaurus sacrarum Historiarum veteris et novi Testamenti, Antwerp, 1585. Later published by Claes Jansz. Visscher in Theatrum biblicum (1639, 1643, and 1674) and Grooten figuer-bibel (1646). An engraved cartouche appears in the second edition of 1639.
Cited/described in
Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Maarten De Vos 117
Genre/form
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Belgium -- Antwerp.

Call number
ART 267- 447 no.4 (size M)
Folger-specific note
Also cataloged as a set.
Folger accession
267447

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