Willem Swidde

De Joode Koning Alexander Jannaeus, een Machabeer, ...

Willem Swidde's "De Joode Koning Alexander Jannaeus, een Machabeer, ..." is an original etching and engraving printed on seventeenth century hand-made, laid paper and with full margins as published in 1686. The Maccabees were the dynasty of ruling Jewish priests who first came into prominence under Mattathias. Willem Swidde's etching depicting the King and his Court feasting upon the finest of foods and wines, is tempered by the activity before them -- the execution of at least one hundred victims by crucifixion. This engraving is a fine, original example of the etched art created by the Dutch artist, Willem Swidde.

De Joode Koning Alexander Jannaeus Original Etching and Engraving by the Dutch artist Willem Swidde

De Joode Koning Alexander Jannaeus, een Machabeer

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Willem Swidde (Amsterdam, c. 1660 - Stockholm, 1697)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Subject	-
01-		De Joode Koning Alexander Jannaeus, een Machabeer by Willem Swidde	Original Etching & Engraving	1686	Scenes depicting the history of the Maccabees	Sold
02.-		Judas Machabeus hersteld den Tempel met den Brand-Altaar by Willem Swidde	Original Etching & Engraving	1686	Scenes depicting the history of the Maccabees
03.-		Laeckoo Palace by Willem Swidde	Original Etching	1691	Landscape, seascape views published for "Suecia Antigua et Hodierna"

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Title:	De Joode Koning Alexander Jannaeus, een Machabeer, ...
Artist:	Swidde, Willem (Amsterdam, c. 1660 - Stockholm, 1697)
Date:	1686
Medium:	Original Etching & Engraving
Note:	Willem Swidde: No nation will ever again quite possibly produce such an outstanding array of original etchers as Holland in the seventeenth century. One need only mention several names: Rembrandt, Ruisdael, Dujardin, van Ostade, Waterloo and a host of others raised etching, and in particular the landscape etching, to its highest plateau. Despite a short life, Willem Swidde fully belongs to this 'Golden Age' of the art of etching.
	Not much is known of Willem Swidde's actual life. It is assumed he was born about the year 1660. His first work to be published in Holland was a set of landscape etchings based upon the designs of Dirk Dalens. Several years later he established a reputation for a fine set of large, marine etchings based upon his own designs. Willem Swidde also was commissioned to contribute etchings to illustrated books of the day, most notably in the fields of topography and Biblical subjects.
	In about 1690, Willem Swidde left Holland for the Kingdom of Sweden to work upon designs and etchings for a proposed publication entitled, Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna. The text was written by E. Dahlberg. Several years later a fellow Dutch etcher, Jan Van Den Aveelen (1650-1727), joined Swidde in Stockholm (Holmiae) to complete the undertaking. Altogether, the project, with its large and minutely detailed etchings took more than twenty years to complete and was not published in its final form until 1715. Swidde had contributed fifty-four etchings by the year of his death (1697) and these magnificent views stand among the greatest topographical etchings of their time.
	De Joode Koning Alexander Jannaeus, een Machabeer, ... was commissioned for a large book no doubt dealing with a history of the Maccabees. Briefly, this is a history of the Jewish people in Palestine from the death of King Alexander (323 BC) to a period around 160 BC. After the death of Alexander, Palestine assumed the uncomfortable position of being a buffer state between the warring empires of Egypt and Syria. The Maccabees were the dynasty of ruling Jewish priests who first came into prominence under Mattathias. His son, Judas Machabeus (also called, 'Judas the Maccabee') fought a number of crucial battles against the Syrian generals of Antiochus the Great and Antiochus Epiphanes, which helped to secure Jewish independence. This fine etching and engraving may portray Alexander the Great. Under his conquest of Palestine and Egypt, Jews enjoyed the right to practice their religious beliefs without persecution. Although this striking etching, which shows the King and his Court feasting upon the finest of foods and wines, is tempered by the activity before them -- the execution of at least one hundred victims by crucifixion.
Size:	11 X 13 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed on seventeenth century hand-made, laid paper and with full margins as published in 1686. Containing hand-written numeration by a former owner to the lower margin and the vertical crease for a fold-out plate (as usual). As well, a small pin-prick hole (visible only from the verso) exists in the drapery to the upper left. Signed in the plate, "W. Swidde, fecit, 1686" to the lower centre. A strong, finely printed impression and in very good condition throughout. De Joode Koning Alexander Jannaeus, een Machabeer, ... represents a fine, original example of the etched art of Willem Swidde.
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