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Object Type
Museum number: 1853,0312.228
Description: Massacre of the innocents; unfinished plate with the figures completed only; a muscular commander, holding a baton and with his other arm behind his back, stands on a capital and looks towards a massacre; a gang of men with daggers grapple with a group of mothers clutching their children at upper left Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Hendrik Goltzius; Published by: Claes Jansz. Visscher
School/style
Production date: 1585-1586 (circa)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 485 millimetres; Width: 373 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For comment see 1853,0312.229.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (15.III) (Hendrick Goltzius); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (17.II); Hirschmann 1921 / Hendrik Goltzius, Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes (17); Strauss 1977 / Hendrik Goltzius: the complete engravings and woodcuts (206); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (III.18.23)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Associated with: Bethlehem
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1853
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1853,0312.228

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