Solomon's justice, Naturae certissimum indicium (title on object), Emblemata Sacra è praecipuis utriusque testamenti historiis concinnata (Old Testament) (series title), Imagines et figurae bibliorum (series title), King Solomon sits on his throne at his palace. He is passing judgment on a dispute between two prostitutes who had both given birth to a child. One of the children had died and lies on the ground before the king. The child who is still alive and claimed by both mothers is held by a man with a sword. This man is ordered by Solomon to cut the child in half. This goes too far for one of the women. She begs him on her knees to let her child live, and Solomon points to her as the real mother (1. Kings 3:18). In the foreground many people are watching. In the background on the left a square with a fountain. 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 187 mm × width 258 mm
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