Two hooded figures and a king grieve over a dead person while a masked woman enters the room with a bowl and a stick. Woodcut attributed to C. van Sichem the elder.

  • Sichem, Christoffel van, approximately 1546-1624.
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1500-1599
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17194i
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Two hooded figures and a king grieve over a dead person while a masked woman enters the room with a bowl and a stick. Woodcut attributed to C. van Sichem the elder. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1500-1599

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1 print : woodcut

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CVS

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G.K. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten, Munich 1860, vol. 2, pp. 309-312

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Wellcome Collection 17194i

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Bears monogram "CVS", which Nagler, loc. cit., identifies as the monogram of Christof van Sichem the elder and the younger. The elder contributed woodcuts to editions of Livy and Lucius Florus (Strassburg 1575), Josephus and Hegesippus (Strassburg 1581), and the Bible in Luther's translation (Frankfurt 1589)

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