print
- Museum number
- 1968,1018.1.28
- Title
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Object: Lot protecting the angels from the Sodomites
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Series: Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegantissimis imaginabus expressum excellentissimorum in hac arte virorum opera: nunc primum in lucem editus
- Description
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Lot seen to left, preventing a group of Sodomites from entering his house and attack the angels, one seen to left, near the door; behind, a view of the city of Sodom.
Etching and engraving with contemporary colouring
- Production date
- 1585
- Dimensions
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Height: 208 millimetres
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Width: 255 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From the biblical series 'Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti (...)'; part of the set of four prints on the 'Story of Lot'; on this series see Hans Mielke, 'Der Thesaurus Veteris et Novi Testamenti des GdJ', in 'Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 1975, pp.29-83, see n. 6, p.78; set of prints after Frans Menton but his name has been removed in the present edition.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1968,1018.1.28
