The Servants of Absalom Killing Amnon, from "The Story of Amnon and Tamar"
Heinrich Aldegrever
1540 · Engraving; first state of two (New Hollstein) · Drawings and Prints
Two of Absalom's servants raise daggers to stab Amnon while two figures watch. Based on 2 Samuel 13:29. Plate 5 from a series of seven plates with the Story of Amnon and Tamar.
- Artist
- Heinrich Aldegrever
- Date
- 1540
- Medium
- Engraving; first state of two (New Hollstein)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966