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upper center in plate: RUBEN; lower left in plate: Crispyn va Broec iventor; lower center: CJVissher Excudebat; lower right in plate: 1; in margin below image, in plate: Primus Iacobi natorum nomine Ruben: / Doni excellens imperioq prior. / Sed quia foedavi stratum genitoris ab illis / Exclusus, perij seu levis unda breui. (I am the first of Jacob's sons, Ruben by name. I excel by my gifts, and am the foremost in power. But because I have defiled my father's bed I have been shut out of them, and in a brief span I am spent like an insubstantial wave. [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. 195.])

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. 66, 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. 54, ii/ii.

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