Seizure of Christ

Method Etching
Artist Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur
Published Augsburg. c.1670.
Dimensions Image 160 x 249 mm, Sheet 170 x 251 mm
Notes From Iconographia; a series of 148 etched plates by Küsel after drawings by Baur. The titlepage reads in Latin: 'Complectens in se Passiones, Miracula, Vitam Christi universam,' or, 'Embracing the passions, the Miracle, the whole life of Christ.' The series was a huge success and went through numerous editions between the years of 1670 and 1702.

Meyer, p. 155; H. 301-446

Melchior Küsel (1626 - 1683) was an engraver and publisher who was a pupil of Matthäus Merian the Elder in Frankfurt. Küsel acquired a large part of the Nachlass of J.W.Baur after his death. For the most part, Küsel's reproductions of Baur's work falls into four categories: the 146 etchings entitled Iconographia (1670); the 42 plates of the 'Pastor Fido' of 1671; the 40 plates of the 'Underschidliche Prospecten' of 1681; and the 151 plates of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' of 1681 which are copied from Baur's own etched series of 1639/41.

Condition: Trimmed within plate.
Framing unmounted
Price £75.00
Stock ID 33928

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