Inscription
in image, at bottom right: IWtewael inuentor. / GSwaneb: sculp: / CVSichem editore; below image, at left: Aspice crudeles poenas & dira luentem / Supplicia, humanas qui superauit opes / Uni odiisque vivo furiisque atrocibus instat / Effera gens, quondam grex populusque Dei; below image, at centre: Luce. 23. / Math. 27; below image, at right: Dum Pilate times terreni Principis iram / Non metuis summi ius temerare Dei. / Si tamen haud aliter potuit Patris ira piari, / Poena fuit tale subisse iugum; below image, at left: IIII
Provenance
Count Alexandre Andréevitch Bezborodko [1834-1862], St. Petersburg (Lugt 1629). (R. E. Lewis, San Rafael, California); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 22, 1984; Gift to NGA, 2012.
Bibliography
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- 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; no. 53, i/ii