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Cameo with Battle of the Israelites and the Amalekites

Master H. S. R. (Artist)
ca. 1550-1575 (Renaissance)
carved shell
(Renaissance Europe )

An artist working on this small scale needs dexterity to keep the details of a crowded battlefield crisp. A cameo of the same battle (described in Exodus 17), monogrammed HSR by the same talented but otherwise unidentified master, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and was in the Habsburg imperial collections by the early 1600s.

Provenance
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Joseph Brummer, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.

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1971-1972 World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
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Geographies

Germany (Place of Origin)

Measurements

1 9/16 x 2 1/16 in. (4 x 5.3 cm)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, 1942

Location in Museum

Charles Street: Second Floor: Chamber of Wonders

Accession Number

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42.1193

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Baltimore, MD
21201

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