Benjamin

c. 1585; published 1643

Claes Jansz Visscher

Publisher, Dutch, 1586/1587 - 1652

Jan Sadeler I

Artist, Netherlandish, 1550 - 1600

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (cut within platemark): 21.8 x 15 cm (8 9/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.128.9.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 71, State ii/ii

Associated Artworks

Benjamin

Jan Sadeler I, Claes Jansz Visscher

1585

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam, 1980: XXI (Johannes Sadeler I), no. 71, ii/ii.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Crispijn van den Broeck, Ursula Mielke, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2011: Part I, no. 59, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

upper center in plate: BENJAMIN; lower center in plate: .12.; in margin below image, in plate: Sum natu minimus Beniaminus ex Cananea. / Mater in enixu est morte perempta meo. / Me scripture Lupu[m] natu[m] consumere praeda[m] / In matutino tempore uera uocat. (I, Benjamin, am the youngest, born of a Canaanite woman who died giving me birth. The scriptures justly call me a wolf born to devour its prey in the morning. [translation from Veldman, Ilja M., and H. J. de Jonge, "The sons of Jacob: the twelve patriarchs in sixteenth-century Netherlandish prints and popular literature," Simiolus, vol. 15 (1985), no. 3, p. 196.])

Wikidata ID

Q76343340

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