print
- Museum number
- 1939,0130.1.83
- Title
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Series: Royal-Size Bible
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Series: Historiae Sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti
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Series: Biblische figuren, Darinnen die fürnembste historien, in heiliger Schrifft begriffen, geschichtmässig entworffen
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Series: Figures de la Bible, demonstrans les principales histoires de la Saincte Escriture
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Series: Bybelsche figuren, vertonende de voornaemste historien der Heylige Schrifture
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Series: Figures of the Bible, in wich almost every history of the Holy Scriptures is discribed
- Description
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The Parable of the Tares among the Wheat (Matthew 13: 24-30, 36-40 - while the farmers sleep, the devil sows weeds among the wheat); large trees in the central foreground with three sleeping figures in the shade at right; beyond some farm buildings and at left a horned figure sowing; after Abraham Bloemaert; from a series of 130 engravings (plus title-page) forming a Picture Bible
Engraving
- Production date
- 1652 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 404 millimetres
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Width: 521 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the volume see 1939,0130.1.1. For a copy in reverse by Jacob Matham after Bloemaert see 1856,0209.275.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- The ex-libris of Charles Bruce (dated 1712) is pasted on the verso of the title-page (1939,0130.1.1)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1939,0130.1.83