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print
Object Type
print
Museum number
D,7.91
Title
Object:
Zachaeus
Series:
Sinners of the Old and New Testament
Description
Plate 3: Zacchaeus. The tax collector kneeling inside a room, in profile to left, one hand clutched to his chest and the other pointing at bags with coins in lower left, the same man seen in a tree during Christ's entry in Jerusalem; first state before number; after Abraham Bloemaert. 1611 Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Willem van Swanenburg
After:
Abraham Bloemaert
Published by:
Willem van Swanenburg
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1611
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
273 millimetres
(trimmed)
Width:
173 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is one from a series of six, for comment see D,7.93. The plate for this print is in a private collection in France.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(9.I)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
tax-collector/customs-official
entry into jerusalem
Associated names
Representation of:
Zacchaeus
Associated with:
Petrus Scriverius
(author of Latin verses)
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Sir Hans Sloane
(probably)
Acquisition date
1753
Acquisition notes
No evidence of provenance visible but part of a Courten set (see D,7.95)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
D,7.91