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[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament - Samson's mother] Mater Sampsonis.Coelesti Mater Sampsonis voce docetur, Quem, statuente Deo, sit genitura parens.
M. de Vos invent. J. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of the mother of Samson, referred to in the Bible only as 'the wife of Monoah'. A barren woman, she was visited by the Angel of the Lord and told she would bear a son if she abstained from alcohol. In the background is a scene of the Sacrifice of Manoah, with the Angel of the Lord ascending to Heaven in the smoke. Plate 11 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.13, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51915] £220.00
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of the mother of Samson, referred to in the Bible only as 'the wife of Monoah'. A barren woman, she was visited by the Angel of the Lord and told she would bear a son if she abstained from alcohol. In the background is a scene of the Sacrifice of Manoah, with the Angel of the Lord ascending to Heaven in the smoke. Plate 11 of the series 'Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti', engraved by Jan Collaert II (c.1561-c.1620) after Maarten de Vos (1532 - 1603). The author of the verse was Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574.
BM: 1992,0404.13, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51915] £220.00