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Object Type
print
Museum number
R,2.3
Description
Samson and Delilah; Delilah reclining on a bed at right, a dog and a pair of scissors with cut off hair in lower left, Samson being tied with ropes by two soldiers, three other soldiers at far left; after Anthony van Dyck Engraving
Producer name
After:
Anthony van Dyck
Print made by:
Hendrick Snyers
Published by:
Abraham van Diepenbeeck
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1642-1647
Production place
Published in:
Antwerp (city)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
452 millimetres
(trimmed)
Width:
626 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
After the painting by Anthony van Dyck in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, inv.no.512. NB The register number stamped on the print is a duplicate (the number also belongs to an mezzotint by McArdell). I have therefore added an asterisk to the number.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(1)
(Snyers)
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(512.III)
(Van Dyck)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
old testament
Associated names
Representation of:
Samson
Representation of:
Delilah
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
(initialled with with date 1799)
Acquisition date
1799
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
R,2.3
Additional IDs
Other BM number:
R,2.2
(number mis-stamped on the verso)