Accession number:
PML 145850.142
Published:
[S.l. : s.n., 1580?]
Description:
1 print : woodcut ; image: 162 x 127 mm; sheet: 203 x 163 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Illustration evidently removed from a copy of Hendrik Niclaes's Speculum Justitiae : De Spegel der Gerechticheit, dorch den hilligen geest der Lieften ... (S.l. : s.n., 1580?).
Mounted as item 142 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows Adam and Eve beneath the Tree of Life at their immediate right, surrounded by the animals of Paradise; they are standing with their feet upon the head of the serpent, who lies with his tail coiled around the Tree of Knowledge or Death, shown standing at far right, festooned with skulls.
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