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Object Type
print
Museum number
1856,0614.133
Description
Judith with the Head of Holofernes. Judith standing in front of a tent and holding a sword in her right hand, holding Holofernes's head in the other and handing it to a woman at right, the decapitated body of Holofernes beyond; anonymous copy in reverse after Christoffel van Sichem II who made a woodcut after a woodcut by Christoffel van Sichem I after a design by Hendrik Goltzius Woodcut
Producer name
After:
Christoffel van Sichem I
After:
Christoffel van Sichem II
(woodcut)
After:
Hendrik Goltzius
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1561-1624
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
Dimensions
Height:
131 millimetres
Width:
101 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is a copy in reverse after Christoffel van Sichem I (Hollstein 131), for comment see D,5.164.
Bibliographic references
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(396)
(Hendrick Goltzius; Prints after inventions by Goltzius; copy c.II)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(131)
(Sichem I; copy in reverse)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(III.126.1)
(copy in reverse)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
old testament
murder/murderer
Associated names
Representation of:
Judith
Representation of:
Holofernes
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Henry Graves & Co
Acquisition date
1856
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1856,0614.133