History of Cain and Abel (Plate 3)

History of Cain and Abel (Plate 3)

Adam and Eve mourning Abel's death; Adam seated at left, clasping his hands and looking towards Cain's dead body lying on the ground with a jawbone near it, Eve in despair and tearing her hair out at right, next to the dead body, a smoking altar beyond; after Michiel Coxcie. 1576
Etching with contemporary colouring

Gerard de Jode

1576

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https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1968-1018-1-12

etching

engraving