(attrib. by or after) Bernard Salomon (aka Bernard Klein; B Gallo; Bernardus Gallus; Klein Salomon; Le
Petit Bernard) (1506/10–c1561) (cf. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1865-0610-460)
Note that there are at least three woodcut artists in the
1500s that were influenced by Bernard Salomon: Pierre Eskrich (c1530–c1590),
Thomas Arande (fl.c1532–c1578) and Jean Moni (fl.c1570).
(Recto) “Jacob’s Ladder” and (verso) “Joseph’s
Children with Rebeka in Bed and Joseph Cast into the Well” (descriptive titles
only), c1558, woodcut illustrations (recto and verso) originally published and
printed by Jean de Tournes (1504-1564) in Lyon for Claude Paradin’s
(c1510–1573) “Qvadrins Historiqves de la Bible” (see https://archive.org/details/qvadrinshistoriq00para/page/n35/mode/2up)
and later republished in “Figures Historiques.”
This impression shows significant changes to the
original design. Interestingly, the head of Jacob (recto at lower left) has been
recut on a fresh insert of wood wedged into the plate matrix along with another
fresh insert of recut wood showing what I read as Joseph leaving Jacob’s house
(recto at right). Note also the white “dots” in both impressions (recto and
verso) suggesting that the original wood printing plates were both riddled with
worm holes.
Size: (sheet) 14.3 x 19.2 cm.
Condition: recto and verso impressions are both very
good and trimmed along the image borderlines. The leaf is in an excellent condition
for its considerable age with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant
stains or foxing.
I am selling this leaf of
double-sided woodcuts from the mid-1500s showing (on the recto side) Jacob at
lower left dreaming of a ladder to heaven and at right the departure of his son (Joseph) on a calamitous journey shown in the verso woodcut where Joseph is cast
into a well/cistern by his brothers (at left), marries Rebeka (shown in bed) and then has children (one having a bath in
the foreground)—for the total cost of AU$200 (currently US$141.90/EUR120.95/GBP109.24
at the time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling
to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed
by some countries.
If you are interested in
purchasing this double-sided woodcut featuring multiple events in a single
scene and—perhaps even more interesting—the insertion of recut images similar
to today’s use of Photoshop (e.g. Joshua’s head and Joseph departing his father
on the right side of the recto print), please contact me
(oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make
the payment easy.
This print has been sold
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