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Title Ahasuerus holds out his sceptre to Esther (Esther usually kneeling), Ahasuerus' traitors are hanged
Type Ornamental block
Sizes 22x76
Material Woodcut
Colour Black
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1657
Iconclass 71Q64,71Q351
Iconclass description Ahasuerus holds out his sceptre to Esther (Esther usually kneeling), Ahasuerus' traitors are hanged
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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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