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Inscription

lower left center, in plate, in image: .A.C. fec.; lower center, in plate, in image: .H. Bol. Inu.; lower right center, in plate, in image: .Sadl. exc.; lower right, in plate, in image: .1.5.8.5.; below image, in plate: Qui pecudes tenera debebat pascere in herba, / Tacte frui tantum, & vellus deglubere curarit. / At bonus educit pastor, pecudes que reducit. Ezeh. 34. / Quique alia irrepunt, fures sunt atque latrones. Joha. 10.

Marks and Labels

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Provenance

(William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1962; gift to NGA, 1964.

Exhibition History

2009
Scripture for the Eyes: Biblical Illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY; and the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2009-2010. no. 17a.

Bibliography

1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Collaert Dynasty, Ann Diels and Marjolein Leesburg, authors). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2005: Part II, no. 232, state only; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 78.

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