Illustration: 71E11732x7

General

Title the plague of the first-born: the destroying angel passes through the land and kills every Egyptian first-born of man and animal
Type Illustration
Sizes 112x88
Material Woodcut
Colour Black
Artist Christoffel (2) van Sichem
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1657
Iconclass 71E11732
Iconclass description the plague of the first-born: the destroying angel passes through the land and kills every Egyptian first-born of man and animal
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Appearances

Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (Exodus) 1 I1v
Show scan: Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (Exodus) vol.1 p.I1v
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.a

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Scan: Utrecht UB MAZ 2176 (Exodus) vol.1 p.I1v
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.b

References

Literature references

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut 1977 Chapter 2 An Introduction to the Woodcuts of the Seventeenth Century, with a discussion of the German woodcut Broadsides of the Seventeenth Century (by Ingeborg Lehmann-Haupt), New York

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut 1983 Christoffel van Sichem A Family of Dutch 17th Century Woodcut Artists, in: Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Vol. XXVII, Christoffel (1) van Sichem to Herman Specht, pp. 274-306

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