Gideon demolished ten servants of Baal altar commissioned by God. In the background the Asherah pole is cut down and transported. The pole is an altar built, where: the bull of Joash, the father of Gideon, is sacrificed in the distance. In the margin a one-line caption in Latijn. Manufacturer : printmaker: anonymous, designed by Maarten van Heemskerck (listed building) Publisher: Hieronymus Cock (listed property) Place manufacture: printmaker: Netherlands Publisher: Antwerp Date: 1561 Physical features: car material: paper technique: engra (printing process) Dimensions: plate edge: h 203 mm ×
Gideon demolished ten servants of Baal altar commissioned by God. In the background the Asherah pole is cut down and transported. The pole is an altar built, where: the bull of Joash, the father of Gideon, is sacrificed in the distance. In the margin a one-line caption in Latijn. Manufacturer : printmaker: anonymous, designed by Maarten van Heemskerck (listed building) Publisher: Hieronymus Cock (listed property) Place manufacture: printmaker: Netherlands Publisher: Antwerp Date: 1561 Physical features: car material: paper technique: engra (printing process) Dimensions: plate edge: h 203 mm × W 251 mm Subject Gideon and as servants destroy the altar of Baal, cut down the grove near it, build an altar to God on the rock, take a bullock and offer a burnt sacrifice
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