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Belshazzar’s Feast

Jan Harmensz. Muller, Johann Melchior Bocksberger, and others

Belshazzar’s Feast

1592-1602

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Belshazzar’s Feast

1592-1602

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 354 x 400 mm. (13 15/16 x 15 3/4 in.) Image: 336 x 397 mm. (13 1/4 x 15 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.12882
BMA: "17th Century Printmaking: Italy and the North" 27 May - 17 August 1986.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper center, in plate "MANE THETEL PHARES."; below image, across lower margin, in plate six lines of text in Latin beginning "Cernite Chaldæi viuâ [...]"; below image, lower left, in plate "Johannes Muller: / fecit."; below image, lower right, in plate "Harman Muller / excudebat." Verso: lower left in graphite "15036"; lower left in graphite diamond with "9216"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Jan Harmensz. Muller

1570–1627

Dutch, 1571-1628
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Artist

Johann Melchior Bocksberger

1524–1586

Austrian, 1525/35 - 1587
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Publisher

Harman Jansz Muller

1539–1616

Dutch, 1540-1617
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