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[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament.] Sarah

[Celebrated Women of the Old Testament.] SarahSara uxor Tobię septem viduata maritis, Cum lachrymis findit nocte dieque preces.

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 Sarah, wife of Tobias. Plate 16 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: 1992,0404.18, first state, before borderlines.
[Ref: 51920]  £240.00


 

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