Illustration: 71L18131x71L172x3

General

Title Athalia hearing the noise of the people acclaiming King Joash, comes to the temple and sees the new king standing by a pillar; she tears her clothes in dismay, death of Athalia: she is seized by soldiers, brought to the palace and killed at the Horse gate
Type Illustration
Sizes 111x85
Material Woodcut
Colour Black
Artist Christoffel (2) van Sichem
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1657
Iconclass 71L18131,71L172
Iconclass description Athalia hearing the noise of the people acclaiming King Joash, comes to the temple and sees the new king standing by a pillar; she tears her clothes in dismay, death of Athalia: she is seized by soldiers, brought to the palace and killed at the Horse gate
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Appearances

Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (II Kings) 1 Ss3r
Show scan: Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (II Kings) vol.1 p.Ss3r
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.a

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Scan: Utrecht UB MAZ 2176 (II Kings) vol.1 p.Ss3r
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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