Benjamin, 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): 21.8 x 14.5 cm (8 9/16 x 5 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 71, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2005.128.9.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 in plate: IOSEPH; lower right in plate: .ii.; in margin below image, in plate: Filius accrescens, aspectu pulcher Ioseph / Faemineo e turri co[n]vitio petitur. / Inuideam mihi co[n]traxit mea uita pudica / Quodq[ue] manus leuib[us], sit mihi pro[m]pta telis. (A growing son, fair of countenance, is Joseph. From the towers women abuse him. My chaste life has earned me hatred, as has my hand, so swift with light darts. [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. 71, 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. 59, ii/ii.