The Judgement of Salomon and Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultry.

2 engravings, 22,9 x 30,7 cm, laid paper, signed and dated in the plate at lower edge "KMander inventor 1597 / Hen. Hondius fe. et. ex.".

Under passe-partout.

One of the earliest engravings produced by Hondius. With an exceptional dedication to Godefroy van Gelder, a Brussels goldsmith to the Duke of Parma and the first teacher of Hondius. Nice early impressions with wide margins of the first and only state.
Ref. New Hollstein (Hondius) 1 and 14. - N. Orenstein, "Hendrick Hondius and the Business of Prints in the Seventeenth-Century Holland", Rotterdam 1996, pp. 22-23. - Not in Rijksmuseum.