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Object Type
Museum number: 1891,1015.13
Description: The feast of Herod; Herod and his wife seated underneath the portico of a domed building in left background; Salome approaching with the head of the Baptist; in centre background the executioner standing next to the headless corpse; in right background view of a landscape with a town and a river with bathers and a boat-party; in foreground courtiers in contemporary dress holding a banquet; at left dancers and musicians; one couple followed by death holding a scythe; printed from two blocks; late impression. Woodcut
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Production date: 1525-1545
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 390 millimetres (Sheet size); Width: 267 millimetres (Per block); Width: 535 millimetres
Curator's comments: BM also has an early impression, see 1919,0616.40.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (832); Pauli 1901-11 / Hans Sebald Beham: Ein Kritisches Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche Radirungen und Holzschnitte (832); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.459.103)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: death of baptist; feast/banquet; dance; bathing; death
Associated names: Representation of: Herod Antipas; Representation of: Salome; Representation of: Herodias; Representation of: St John the Baptist (Prodromos)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1891
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1891,1015.13

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