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This title page introduces a series of prints depicting the life of Seth, and features the skeletons of Seth’s parents, Adam and Eve. Eve holds the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge, while Adam grips a scroll that reads, “You are dust and unto dust you shall return.”
Publishers of engravings frequently issued moralizing prints in series, a practice that encouraged collectors to buy complete sets instead of single works.
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| Titles: | Title Page to The Story of the Family of Seth From the series Bonorum et Malorum Consensio & horum praemia, illorum poena (The Knowledge of Good and Evil and Their Rewards and Punishments) |
| Date: | 1586 |
| Artists: | Jan Sadeler I (Flemish, 1550–1600) After a drawing by Maarten de Vos (Flemish, 1532–1603) Published by Jan Sadeler I (Flemish, 1550–1600) |
| Medium: | Engraving |
| Dimensions: | Plate: 8 x 10 11/16 inches (20.3 x 27.1 cm) Sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (21 x 27.7 cm) |
| Classification: | Prints |
| Credit Line: | The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985 |
| Accession Number: | 1985-52-8841 |
| Geography: | Made in Southern Netherlands (modern Belgium), Europe Published in Mainz, Germany, Europe |
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