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Surrounded by animals in the Garden of Eden, Eve ascends from Adam's side. Line engraving by J. Haeyler after C. van den Broeck.
- Broeck, Crispin van den, 1524-approximately 1591.
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- 15592i
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Credit: Surrounded by animals in the Garden of Eden, Eve ascends from Adam's side. Line engraving by J. Haeyler after C. van den Broeck. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Description
Bible. O.T. Genesis 2.21
Physical description
1 print : line engraving ; platemark 19.7 x 27.1 cm
Lettering
Ex hac arbore ne comedatis. Jehova deus formavit foeminam ex costa Adami. Ecce novo demptam tollit de corpore costam, / et capit hinc formae facta puella decus. Genes. c.2. v.21. J. Hade. fecit.
Creator/production credits
"Haeyler oder Haedeler, Kupferstecher zu Amsterdam um 1570 . Er ätzte nach C . van Broeck u . a ."—G.K. Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, München: E.A. Fleischmann, 1835-1852, vol. 5, p. 501
Lettering note
The Latin in the first circle says "do not eat from this tree" and in the second, "God formed woman from Adam's rib". The sacred tetragrammaton, "Yahweh", is inscribed in two of the circles
Bears number: 2
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 15592i
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- Latin
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