Identification title(s): david and abigail. Blessed are the peacemakers. The eight beatitudes (series title). Theatrum biblicum hoc est historiae sacrae veteris et novi testamenti tabulis aeneis expressae (series title). Object type: print album page serial number: 7/8object number: rp-p-1976-30-298. Catalog reference: new hollstein dutch 43-3(3). Note: harmen jansz. Muller, new hollstein dutch 319-3(3). Note: maarten van heemskerck. Description: when a stingy farmer refuses to help david and his men, they threaten to punish him. Abigail, the farmer's wife, kneels before david and offers him and his soldiers food and drink. With that she satisfied david. Print is part of a series on the eight beatitudes of christ and illustrates the beatitude: blessed are the peacemakers. On a square plaque at the bottom of this text from matt. 5:9 in latin. At the bottom in the margin a verse in latin about the beatitude and the presentation. This print is part of an album. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: harmen jansz muller (mentioned on object), after a drawing by: maarten van heemskerck (mentioned on object), publisher: claes jansz. Visscher (ii), writer: hadrianus junius. Place of manufacture: amsterdam. Dating: 1564 - 1568 and/or 1643. Physical features: engraving. Material: paper technique: engraving (printing process). Dimensions: plate edge: h 214 mm × w 248 mm. Subject: what: meeting of david and abigail, who kneels before him, blessed are the peacemakers. Credit line: purchase from the f. G. Waller fund. Acquisition: purchase 1976. Date: 1564 - 1568 en/of 1643.
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