print
- Museum number
- 1968,1018.1.87
- Title
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Object: Shamgar and Deborah
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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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To left, Shamgar, standing, with a beard and holding a sword, a massacre scene seen behind him, to right, Barak, standing wearing armoury; behind him, Jael killing Siserra inside a tent.
Engraving with contemporary colouring
- Production date
- 1585
- Dimensions
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Height: 213 millimetres
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Width: 261 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See curator's comment 1968-10-18-1-(86). The figure of Barak, who is not a Judge of Israel, replaces the figure of Deborah, perhaps because she would have been the only female figure in the series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1968,1018.1.87
