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Quia audisti vocem vxoris tuae, & comedisti de ligno ex quo praeceperam tibi ne comederes, &c.,...

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Quia audisti vocem vxoris tuae, & comedisti de ligno ex quo praeceperam tibi ne comederes, &c., Gen. 3 H.B. i. [center plate] ; W.H. [center plate] ; Ab. à Dvpenbeché inu. [border] ; W. Hollar fecit [border].

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Folger copy	ART Box H737.5 no.23 pt.1a (size L)
Creator	Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker.
Title	Quia audisti vocem vxoris tuae, & comedisti de ligno ex quo praeceperam tibi ne comederes, &c., Gen. 3 H.B. i. [center plate] ; W.H. [center plate] ; Ab. à Dvpenbeché inu. [border] ; W. Hollar fecit [border].
Other title(s)	Quia audisti uocem uxoris tuae, & comedisti de ligno ex quo praeceperam tibi ne comederes, &c., Gen. 3; Pennington item title: Garden of Eden; Pennington set title: Dance of death
Place of creation or publication	France-Paris. Paris [France] :
Publisher	Chez N. Pitau, rue St. Jacques proche les Mathurins,
Date	[ca. 1680]
Physical description	1 print : etching ; exterior platemark 115 x 93 mm.
Notes	This print was made with two separate plates - one for the central scene and one for the decorative border. – While published around 1680, the plates were originally made in 1651 (see introduction to Pennington 233-266 for a history of this set of prints).
Published references	Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 233 (center plate), 233A (border)
Summary	Center plate: Eve sits on left of a tree with an apple in her left hand, while Adam, standing on right, plucks an apple. The serpent entwined in the tree has the face of a young man.--From Pennington.;Border: An architectural frame with two bearded old men as caryatids, each holding a large orb surmounted by a cross and with a string of jester's bells draped over it. At top is a skull and hour-glass, with a small boy at each side. At bottom is a skull with cross-bones in the center and a small boy with an hour-glass on each side.--Adapted from Pennington.
Subject	Adam (Biblical figure), depicted. Eve (Biblical figure), depicted. Dance of death – 17th century, depicted. Eden, depicted. Tree of life, depicted.
Genre - Form	Prints – 17th century. Emblems (allegorical pictures) – 17th century.
Associated name	Diepenbeeck, Abraham van, 1596-1675, artist. Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, artist. Pitau, N., 17th cent., publisher.
OCLC number	657726717