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upper center: GAD; lower right in plate: .8.; in margin below image, in plate: Gad animo magnus belli virtute probatus / Victoris laudes abstulit ense suo / Ex me prognatus vates praeclarus Elias / Quem currus vivum igneus eripuit. (Gad, great in spirit, tried in valor, has with his sword borne off the victor's praise. From me sprang Elijah, the prophet of great renown, who was carried off alive by a fiery chariot. [translation from Veldman, Ilja M., and H. J. de Jonge, "The sons of Jacob: the twelve patriarchs in sixteenth-century Netherlandish prints and popular literature," Simiolus, vol. 15 (1985), no. 3, p. 196.])

Provenance

(Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Rumbler, Helmut H., Mr.

Bibliography

1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1980: XXI (Johannes Sadeler I), no. 69, ii/ii.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Crispijn van den Broeck, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2011: Part I, no. 57, ii/ii.

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