Bird Dropping Blinding Tobit
c. 1565
Artist, Netherlandish, 1528/1532 - 1605
Artist, Netherlandish, active 1554-1572; died before 1589
Publisher, Flemish, 1509 or 1517 - 1591

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 23.7 × 32.2 cm (9 5/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
sheet: 25.5 × 34 cm (10 1/16 × 13 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1975.65.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein (The Van Doetecum family), no. 423, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum, Basel (Lugt 222b and Lugt 5902); (Kennedy Galleries, New Yok); purchased 1975 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1951: III (Hans Bol): no. 207.
1993
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Van Doetecum Family, Henk Nalis, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1998: Part II, no. 423, i/ii; (Hans Bol, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2015: Part I, no. 30, i/ii; (The De Jode Dynasty, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2018: Part I, no. 177, i/ii.
Inscriptions
in image, bottom center, in plate: H Bol inuentor; in margin below image, in plate: Senior Tobias se quieti tradens passerum Stercore c[a]ecus fit; in margin below image, at right, in plate: 1; in margin below plate, at far right: Gerar: d Jode excude:; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: Die Tobias... / IKM [in rectangle]/6; verso, vertically at upper right, in graphite by a later hand: Dublette, verglichen P-B; verso, lower left, vertically, in graphite by a later hand: Bol, Hans
Wikidata ID
Q65568748