Illustration: 71H849x71H8492x2

General

Title Absalom, put to flight on a mule, remains hanging by his hair in an oak-tree, Joab stabs Absalom with three spears
Type Illustration
Sizes 106x85
Material Woodcut
Colour Black
Artist Christoffel (2) van Sichem
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1657
Iconclass 71H849,71H8492
Iconclass description Absalom, put to flight on a mule, remains hanging by his hair in an oak-tree, Joab stabs Absalom with three spears
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Appearances

Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (II Samuel) 1 Mm1r
Show scan: Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (II Samuel) vol.1 p.Mm1r
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.a

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Scan: Utrecht UB MAZ 2176 (II Samuel) vol.1 p.Mm1r
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

Bibliographic references

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