Torture death of seven brothers and their mother, Matthijs Pool, after Bernard Picart, 1720 - 1728 print King Antiochus instructs a large boiler to put on the fire to burn the seven brothers and their mother alive. One of them is lifted in the boiler by soldiers with ropes. On the right in the foreground, two soldiers cut the tongue out of the mouth of one of the brothers. Women watch crying. Illustration of the Bible text 2 Makk. 7. Under the show the title in Hebrew, English, German, Latin, French and Dutch. print maker: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdampublisher: The Hague paper etching / engra
Torture death of seven brothers and their mother, Matthijs Pool, after Bernard Picart, 1720 - 1728 print King Antiochus instructs a large boiler to put on the fire to burn the seven brothers and their mother alive. One of them is lifted in the boiler by soldiers with ropes. On the right in the foreground, two soldiers cut the tongue out of the mouth of one of the brothers. Women watch crying. Illustration of the Bible text 2 Makk. 7. Under the show the title in Hebrew, English, German, Latin, French and Dutch. print maker: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdampublisher: The Hague paper etching / engraving the martyrdom of the seven Maccabean brothers and their mother under Antiochus IV Epiphanes (2 Maccabees 7)
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