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Object Type
Museum number: R,3.26
Description: Judith and Holofernes; the young woman putting the head in a sack held by her maid at left, the beheaded body of the general in right background; fourth state with address removed; after Peter Paul Rubens Engraving
Producer name: After: Peter Paul Rubens; Print made by: Alexander Voet II
School/style
Production date: 1650-1695
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 313 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 230 millimetres
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Curator's comments: After the painting by Rubens in the Soprintenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici per le Provincie di Firenze e Pistoia, Florence (Rooses 127). For comment see R,3.27.
Bibliographic references: Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (10.82); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1.IV) (under Voet); Corpus Rubenianum III / Rubens. The Old Testament (52) (copy)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Judith; Representation of: Holofernes
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1769
Acquisition notes: This was misstamped as Cracherode in later years, but is certainly from Fawkener. Inscribed on verso, both in Philipe's pencilled letters, and in pen and ink in Philipe's oval blindstamp "WF". For Cracherode's impression of this same print see R,3.27.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: R,3.26

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