Triomf van Mordechai, Richard Earlom, after Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 1787

Title(s)

Triomf van Mordechai
The Triumph of Mordecai (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1907-2906

Catalogue reference

• Chaloner Smith 8
• Wessely (Earlom) 60-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Richard Earlom (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (mentioned on object)
• publisher: John & Josiah Boydell (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

1787

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 503 mm × width 604 mm

What

• Mordecai's triumph: Mordecai, mounted on the king's horse, is led through the city by Haman (Esther and Ahasuerus may be looking on from the palace)

Acquisition

purchase 1907

Copyright

Public domain

• Richard Earlom : Verzeichniss seiner Radirungen und Schabkunstblätter, p. 24, cat.nr. 60
• British mezzotints portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century, dl. 1, p. 178, cat.nr. 8