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Cain slaying Abel
Medium
engraving
Measurements
4.3 cm diameter (sheet) (circular)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bartsch X p.123, 1; Hollstein p. 138; Schmidt app. 5 (in Meye's Kunstler Lexicon I)
Inscription
stamped in purple ink on reverse c.: NATIONAL GALLERY / OF VICTORIA (in oval) (Lugt 1932g)
inscribed in --- on mount (taken from collector's original backing sheets): R. S./Ldu III 03
inscribed in --- on mount (taken from collector's original backing sheets): SX (in rectangle)
inscribed in --- on mount (taken from collector's original backing sheets): R.S.1076 (1076 in a circle)
Accession Number
1278.556-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Religion and Mythology Violence
Subjects (specific)
Abel (Old Testament character) brothers Cain (Old Testament character) Cain and Abel (Abrahamic religion narrative) clubs (weapons) murders (deaths) nudes (representations)
Movements
Renaissance