Lot en zijn dochters verlaten het brandende Sodom, Virgilius Solis, 1552

Title(s)

Lot en zijn dochters verlaten het brandende Sodom

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-22.132

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 1085

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘181’

Artist

• print maker: Virgilius Solis (mentioned on object)
• printer: Valentin Geißler

Place

Neurenberg

Dating

1552

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 120 mm × width 82 mm

What

• the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: Lot and his family flee to Zoar, carrying their belongings; an angel may be showing the way (Genesis 19:24-29)
• Lot's wife looks back at the city and is transformed into a pillar of salt

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part I, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 10, 23, cat.nr. 1085