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Philips Galle

Esther Before Ahasuerus, Inviting Him for a Banquet, 1564

Description

Maker

  • Philips Galle, 1537-1612, Flemish
  • After Maerten van Heemskerck, 1498-1574, Netherlandish

Title

Esther Before Ahasuerus, Inviting Him for a Banquet

Year

1564

Medium

Engraving on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 20 x 25.1 cm (7 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

In Plate--Inscribed, LL:·S·[MH monogram]EE IN. ; inscribed, LC:Ast animum recipe, en tibi Rex gemmantia tendit Sceptra ultro, expleti prima arguementa furoris.Esther 5,2

Identification

State

3rd of 3

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Professor and Mrs. David Kossoff

Object Number

80.220.3

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Esther Before Ahasuerus, Inviting Him for a Banquet with the accession number of 80.220.3. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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