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[Eleazar Avaran] Eleazar's bold enterprise.
[Eleazar Avaran] Eleazar's bold enterprise. [repeated in Greek, German, Latin, French & Dutch]
Picart delin. Broen Sculps.
[n.d., c.1715.]
Engraving. 360 x 430mm (14¼ x 17"). Tears taped at edges, two small worm holes.
During the Battle of Beit Zechariah (162BC) Eleazar attacks an elephant he believed to carried the Seleucid King Antiochus V. He kills it by hrusting a spear into its belly (as shown here), but it falls on him, crushing him to death.
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Eleazer's bold enterprize.
Eleazer's bold enterprize. [Title also in Greek, Latin, French, Dutch and German.]
Picart delin. Broen sculps.
I Mach: VI, 43. [French/Dutch, n.d., c.1730.]
Etching on laid paper, image 320 x 415mm. 12½ x 16¼". Centrefold as usual; sheet trimmed close to printed border. Glue stains to corners.
A wonderfully dramatic Biblical battle scene; Eleazar on a war elephant leading a charge into the Philistine ranks, scattering men and horses. Son of Dodai the Ahohite, Eleazar in the Old Testament is a mighty man who fought with David against the Philistines. From a volume of etchings and engravings after Bernard Picart (1673 - 1733) and his father Etienne.
[Ref: 21066]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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