Author: Jan Punt (1711-1779)
Title: [Antique title page, 1739] Gevecht voor een kasteel [Childerik, treurspel], published 1739, 1 p.
Description: In the left foreground, an old man has just been stabbed, some soldiers are supporting him. At the centre, a young man attacks the perpetrator with his sword. In the background, women flee into the castle.Signed and dated at bottom: J. Punt invenit et sculps. 1739.Titled: CHILERIK, TREURSPEL. Frontispiece of Pierre de Morand's publication in translation by Christina Leonora de Neufviulle. Published in Amstetrdam in 1739.On verso collector's mark of Pim van Eekelen (Amsterdam 1923-1984), [L. 5101].Bookillustration - boekillustratie - frontispiece - frontispice[NL] Een oude man is zojuist neergestoken, soldaten vangen hem op. Een jonge man gaat met zijn zwaard de dader te lijf. Op de achtergrond vluchten vrouwen het kasteel in. Etching and engraving on paper; total: 245 x 154 mm; some staining and rubbing, otherwise in good condition.

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