Identification title(s): reconciliation of jacob and esau and individual fragments. Object type: print object number: ng-2011-39-24. Description: the brothers esau and jacob embrace each other. To the right behind esau is his army. On the left the cattle and the kneeling women and children of jacob. Below the performance the title and four four-line verses in latin. On the right some fragments of possibly the same print or a print with the same image. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: zacharias dolendo (attributed to), after a design by: karel van mander (i) (possibly), writer: heyman jacobi publisher: joos de bosscher (mentioned on object). Place of manufacture: northern netherlands. Dating: 1580 - 1596. Physical features: engraving. Material: paper technique: engraving (printing process). Dimensions: top: h 288 mm × w 391 mmexplanation until now, this print was only known in a later edition with the address of c. J. Visscher in the theatrum biblicum published by him from 1643, see rp-p-1976-30-39. The prints in the nova zembla collection were forced to be left behind in the winter camp, the 'behouden huis', on the island during an expedition by willem barendsz and jacob van heemskerk in 1596-1597. The prints were brought from amsterdam in one or more stacks as merchandise. Almost three centuries later, in 1871, the norwegian elling carlsen returned to nova zembla and found the remains of the 'preserved house', including a large part of the inventory. Some of the prints, in the form of caked clods, were also found. The clumps of paper were sometimes broken in several places. The prints were separated between 1975 and 1979. This resulted in a total of approximately 1000 fragments of approximately 400 prints of approximately 150 different prints. As far as possible, the fragments have been put together and the prints have been reconstructed. Topic: what: the meeting between esau and jacob. Journey of barendsz and van heemskerck in 1596. Acquisition: transfer of management 1892. Date: between 1580 and 1596.
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