Belshazzar's Feast

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 21.1 x 25.9 cm (8 5/16 x 10 3/16 in.)

sheet: 24.6 x 25.9 cm (9 11/16 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 42, State (?)

Accession Number

1988.11.1

Artists / Makers

Crispijn van de Passe I (artist) Dutch, c. 1565 - 1637

Maarten de Vos (artist after) Netherlandish, 1532 - 1603

Image Use

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Inscription

across top in plate: IMPII CONVIVII TRISTIS EXITVS; lower center in plate: DANIEL. V; across bottom in plate 7 line Latin inscription; lower left in plate: Martin de Voss inuentor.; lower right in plate: Crispin van de Passe coelator excudit; upper right in brown ink: 135

Marks and Labels

sc); Wm: eagle with initial N at bottom (unidentified)

Provenance

initials ABV (?) with cross stamped in purple (L.unde*

Associated Names

Johnson, Jan

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 Hertzberge