Elia in the chariot Story of Elijah (series title) Royaal bible (series title) Elijah goes to heaven in a fiery chariot drawn by two horses and driven by an angel. He raises his hand to the disadvantaged prophet Elisha and his robe fall off the wagon down. The Bible in 2 Kings. 2:11. Down in the margin two two-line texts in Latin and Nederlands. Manufacturer : printmaker Pieter Nolpe (listed building), designed by Pieter Symonsz. Potter (listed building) publisher Claes Jansz. Visscher (II) (listed building) publisher: Nicolaes Visscher (I) publisher: Nicolaes Visscher (II) Place manufacture:
Elia in the chariot Story of Elijah (series title) Royaal bible (series title) Elijah goes to heaven in a fiery chariot drawn by two horses and driven by an angel. He raises his hand to the disadvantaged prophet Elisha and his robe fall off the wagon down. The Bible in 2 Kings. 2:11. Down in the margin two two-line texts in Latin and Nederlands. Manufacturer : printmaker Pieter Nolpe (listed building), designed by Pieter Symonsz. Potter (listed building) publisher Claes Jansz. Visscher (II) (listed building) publisher: Nicolaes Visscher (I) publisher: Nicolaes Visscher (II) Place manufacture: Amsterdam Date: 1623 to 1652 and / or 1623 - 1702 Physical features: etching and engra material: paper Technique: etching / engra ( printing process) Dimensions: plate edge: h 393 mm × W 490 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. There are also la
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