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Object Type
Museum number: 1937,0915.45
Title: Series: The Story of the First Men
Description: Plate 12: Tubalcain in his forge. Landscape with Tubalcain forging a weapon under a shed at centre, tending a fire that burns with the aid of two bellows, his sister Naamah spinning yarn at right, a river with a small water-wheel at right and in the distance tethered logs float down the river, wide landscape with mountains in background; first state before numbers; after Maarten de Vos. 1583 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Jan Sadeler I; After: Maarten de Vos; Published by: Jan Sadeler I
School/style
Production date: 1583
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 205 millimetres; Width: 256 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one of a series of twelve, for comment see D,6.130. For another impression see D,6.141.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: old testament; forge/foundry; spinner/spinning
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1937
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1937,0915.45

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