The Triumph of Mordecai – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The Triumph of Mordecai, preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Triumph of Mordecai
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The subject is Mordecai's triumph from the Book of Esther, in which the courtier Haman is forced to lead Mordecai through the city in royal honor, a sharp reversal of fortune. This 1515 engraving by Lucas van Leyden, the Leiden-born printmaker who began working as a youth, is signed with his initial and dated on the plate. The plate mark has been trimmed away, so the sheet has no margin, and a stamp from the Hubbard Collection records its earlier ownership. Lucas's precise, controlled line made his prints widely collected and copied across Europe in the early 1500s.
| Created / published | 1515 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by Lucas van Leyden, 1494-1533. Engraving (plate mark cut off). Bartsch 32, Hollstein 32, Volbehr 30. Signed with initial and dated on plate. Unident. watermark, possibly ornate corwn. Coll. mark of Hubbard Collection. Hubbard Collection. Ref. copy may be in B.I. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mordecai; Art. Works. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,138 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156234 |
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