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[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament - Hannah] Hannah.Quterilis fuerat, tristis Dominium invocat Anna, Et Samuelem edit, lęta dicatque Deo.
M. de Vos inv. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Hannah, the barren wife of Elkanah, who becomes the mother of Samuel (and five others) after being blessed by the High Priest Eli. Plate 12 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: 1992,0404.14, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51916] £240.00
Phl's Galle excud. [n.d. c.1590.]
Rare engraving. 160 x 90mm (6¼ x 3½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Hannah, the barren wife of Elkanah, who becomes the mother of Samuel (and five others) after being blessed by the High Priest Eli. Plate 12 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: 1992,0404.14, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51916] £240.00