Gerard de Jode (1516-1591)

Marten de Vos (1532-1603)

SUSCIPIT EN ESAU RUBICUNDAM A FRATRE POLENTAM, CUI PRIMOGENITI TRADIT HABERE DECUS

c. 1580
Esau Sells His Birthright for a Mess of Pottage (Old Testament, Genesis 25). Copperplate on paper, 21,3x26,8 cm, marked lower right "Gerardus de Iode excudebat.". No. I. from the series of 4 plates, ref. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c. 1450-1700 (68.I). Trimmed closely around the printing area, creased lower corners.