Saul commits suicide, Ex nimia spe desperatio (title on object), Emblemata Sacra è praecipuis utriusque testamenti historiis concinnata (Old Testament) (series title), Imagines et figurae bibliorum (series title), The battle between the Philistines and the Israelites. When King Saul was held at gunpoint by the Philistine archers, he asked his armorbearer to kill him. When he refused, Saul plunged into his own sword. The armorbearer followed him into death (1. Sam. 31:4). With a motto in Latin above the image and a four-line caption in Latin below the print. The print is part of an album., print maker: Pieter van der Borcht (I) (mentioned on object), Bernardus Sellius, print maker: Antwerp, publisher: Amsterdam, 1582 - 1593 and/or 1613, paper, letterpress printing, etching, height 188 mm × width 259 mm
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