Cain murdering Abel (plate 2 from The Story of Cain and Abel)
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 8 × 11 in. (20.3 × 28 cm) Sheet (including strip of paper pasted to left edge): 10 5/8 × 14 7/16 in. (27 × 36.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Helen J. Baker, 1937
Accession Number
37.68.41
Tags
About the Artist
Claes Jansz. Visscher|Michiel Coxie (I)|Johann Sadeler I · 1586–1652
Claes Jansz. Visscher, also known as Nicolas Joannis Visscher II or Joannis Piscator, was a prominent Dutch Golden Age draughtsman, engraver, mapmaker, and publisher born in Amsterdam in 1587 and died there on June 19, 1652. The son of the printmaker and publisher Jan Claesz. Visscher (c. 1550–1612), he learned the art of etching and printing from his father, helping to expand the family trade int...