David decapitates Goliath Spacious Bible (series title) Goliath is on the ground. David stands with one foot on his chest and lift the heavy d of Goliath over his head, ready to behead him. Left flee the Philistines, while the soldiers of Saul right on their tail. Under the performance four four-line verses in Dutch and a reference to the Bible in 1 Sam. 17: 51. Manufacturer : printmaker: anonymous to print by: anonymous designed by Maarten van Heemskerck (listed building) publisher Claes Jansz. Visscher (II) (listed building) publisher: Nicolaes Visscher (I) publisher: Nicolaes Visscher (II)
David decapitates Goliath Spacious Bible (series title) Goliath is on the ground. David stands with one foot on his chest and lift the heavy d of Goliath over his head, ready to behead him. Left flee the Philistines, while the soldiers of Saul right on their tail. Under the performance four four-line verses in Dutch and a reference to the Bible in 1 Sam. 17: 51. Manufacturer : printmaker: anonymous to print by: anonymous designed by Maarten van Heemskerck (listed building) publisher Claes Jansz. Visscher (II) (listed building) publisher: Nicolaes Visscher (I) publisher: Nicolaes Visscher (II) Place manufacture: Amsterdam Date: 1630 to 1652 and / or 1630 - 1702 Physical features: engra; gilt material: paper Technique: engra (printing process) / color cut dimensions: plate edge: H 403 mm × W 516 mmToelichtingDe Amsterdam publisher Claes Jansz. Visscher (II) produced from the 30s of the seventeenth century great Biblical prints on supposedly generous size paper (approx 480 x 580 mm). After his death in 1652, his son Nicolaes Visscher (I) the company on and so also the issue of Generous Bible Images. When Nicolaes died in 1679 his son Nicolaes Visscher (II) over the business and gave soon after, around 1680, a list of fund. Herein 130 prints with Bible stories described on generously paper (see documentation J. van der Waals). Complete print Bibles on generous format issued by father and son Nicolaes Visscher entitled Historiae Sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti. The sheets were also sold separately and could be combined with Spacious Bible-prints from other publishers. Several Amsterdam publishers spent namely Bible also prints on generously-sized, inter Who: Clement de Jonghe and Cornelis Danckerts. The Visscher issued by the firm of prints are often made by anonymous print makers for example of different sixteenth and seventeenth century biblical prints and print sequences. Often the compositions had to be adapted to the larger and more elongated generous format. The
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