Napthali, c. 1585; published 1643

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series Title

The Twelve Sons of Jacob

Medium

hand-colored engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (cut within platemark): 21.5 x 14.5 cm (8 7/16 x 5 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 70, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2005.128.8.b

Artists / Makers

Jan Sadeler I (artist) Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

Crispin van den Broeck (artist after) Netherlandish, 1523 - c. 1591

Claes Jansz Visscher (publisher) Dutch, 1586/1587 - 1652

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center: NAPHTHALI; lower right in plate: .10.; in margin below image, in plate: Neptalin ex multis seruatus saepe periclis, / Corniger infestus cervus ut a canibus. / Nostra tribus tetaq[ue] fuit saepissime bello, / Sed bonitate dei mox liberata fuit. (Nephthali has often been saved from many dangers, like an antlered stag, imperiled, evaded the hounds. Many times was our tribe tested in war, but was soon freed by God's goodness. [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. 70, 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. 58, ii/ii.