Amsterdam, Visscher, Claes Jansz. (II), Junius, Hadrianus, Heemskerck, Maarten van, Muller, Harmen Jansz, Theatrum Biblicum Hoc Est Historiae Sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti Tabulis Aeneis Expressae, The eight beatitudes, Blessed are the poor in spirit, Job hears the bad news from four messengers, Job hears from four messengers about the disaster that has befallen him. Behind him stands his wife, who holds her handkerchief in front of her face. In the landscape we see how Job's cattle and camels are stolen, how lightning strikes his shepherds and cattle and how the house, in which Job's children held a party, collapses in the storm. Print is part of a series about the eight beatitudes of Christ and illustrates the beatitude: Blessed are the poor in spirit. On the stairs a stone with this text from Mat. 5:3 in Latin. At the bottom in the margin a verse in Latin about the beatitude. This print is part of an album., print, album leaf, prints, height 215 mm, width 247 mm, Dutch, 1540 - 1617-10-07, print maker, printmaker, 1564 - 1568, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Northern Netherlands, 1498 - 1574, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1511-07-01 - 1576-06-16, writer, Publication (Event), Publication, 1586 - 1652-06-19, publisher

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