| Artist |
Pieter Hendriksz. Schut
RKD
|
|---|---|
|
Nicolaes I Visscher
|
|
|
Nicolaes II Visscher
RKD
|
|
| Title | Cain and Abel, from the series Toneel ofte vertooch der Bybelsche historien |
| Date | 1659 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Location | Amsterdam TGN |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: 5 |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, below: Cain door ingenomen haet slaet sijn broeder Habel Doet. Genesis 4.8. | |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, centre right: 6 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-GS |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-GS |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11415/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300055874
religious symbolism
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300015636 landscapes AAT |
|---|---|
| Keywords Iconclass |
21C
fire (one of the four elements)
Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass 31A231 standing figure Iconclass 31A236 lying figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D12 youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass 31E death of human being Iconclass 71 Old Testament Iconclass 31E235 violent death ~ maltreatment, torture Iconclass 33B14 threatening behaviour, challenging Iconclass 41B1 open fire (in general) Iconclass 44G51 crime Iconclass 44G511 murderer Iconclass 53C22 Menace, Intimidation; 'Minaccie' (Ripa) Iconclass 55C221 Sacrifice Iconclass 71A Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve Iconclass 71A82 the killing of Abel: Cain slays him with a stone, a club or a jaw-bone, alternatively with a spade or another tool as weapon Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
|
Do you have any suggestions, questions or information about this work? Write us, collectie.msk@stad.gent |