Jan
Sadeler I (aka Johannes Sadeler; Johann Sadeler) 1550–1600)
“The Descendants of Lamech” (TIB title), 1583, after a lost
drawing by Maarten de Vos (1532–1603),
plate 9 from the series of 12 plates, “The Story of the First Men”.
Engraving on fine laid paper trimmed at (or slightly within) the
platemark and lined on an archival support sheet.
Size: (sheet trimmed unevenly) 20 x 25.8 cm; (image borderline) 19
x 25.6 cm
Inscribed on plate within the image borderline: (lower left) “Ioan:
Sadl: inue: et scalps:”; (centre, on stone) "GENES: IIII"; (lower
centre right) “M. de vos figuravit”
Lettered on plate below the image borderline in two columns of two
lines in Latin: “Excæpit Lamech ex bina coniuge ... / ... , natamque
Noemam."
State i (of ii) before numbering with “9” to the left.
TIB 7001.025 S1 (Isabelle de Ramaix & Walter L Strauss (eds.)
1999, “The Illustrated Bartsch 70, Part 1 [Supplement], Johan Sadeler I”, vol. 70, Part 1, Abaris Books, p. 44); Nagler 1835–52, no. 19; Le Blanc, no. 39;
Wurzbach, no. 8.9; Hollstein 1980, vol. 21, no. 25; Edquist, p. 7, no. 11a.
See also the description of this print at the British Museum: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1545221&partId=1&searchText=Lamech+Sadeler&page=1
Condition: crisp and well-printed lifetime (first state) impression but with
restorations to areas of abrasion and with patches of pale staining. The sheet
is not in superb condition. The sheet has been trimmed and laid upon a support
sheet showing signs of use (marks) (verso).
I am selling this lifetime impression of a very rare but age weary
print for the total cost of AU$313 (currently US$244.32/EUR203.74/GBP180.91 at
the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in
the world.
If you are interested in purchasing this remarkably detailed and
important print featuring a sequence of biblical scenes within a single
composition, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send
you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.
This print has been sold
For those unfamiliar with the biblical figure, Lamech, shown
towards the centre of this image, he is the sixth-generation descendant of Cain
and most interestingly the first polygamist cited in the Bible (see Genesis
4:18).
From my reading of the small vignette scenes to the right of
Lamech, the dead chap in the distance has been freshly killed by Lamech and the
scene in the middle-distance featuring man with a lance in his back is another
that Lanech didn’t quite kill but has wounded—somewhat noticeably I should add.
In the foreground, Lamech has come to tell his two wives—Adah and Zillah—about his
proclivity for killing chaps: “Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto
my speech: for I have slain a man … and a young man to my hurt.” (Genesis 4:
23).
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