Illustration: 73D9x11TT13x1

General

Title Christ in the underworld, harrowing of hell, Christ in Limbo, 'descensus ad inferos', 'Anastasis', hell represented as cave or grotto - TT - with the devil (Lucifer) as ruler
Type Illustration
Sizes 109x73
Material Woodcut
Colour Black
Artist Christoffel (2) van Sichem
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1657
Iconclass 73D9,11TT13
Iconclass description Christ in the underworld, harrowing of hell, Christ in Limbo, 'descensus ad inferos', 'Anastasis', hell represented as cave or grotto - TT - with the devil (Lucifer) as ruler
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Appearances

Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (Matthew) 2 F3r
Show scan: Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (Matthew) vol.2 p.F3r
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.a

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Scan: Utrecht UB MAZ 2176 (Matthew) vol.2 p.F3r
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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