Jeremiasz Falck Polonus (1610-1677) - Esau sell his birthright

Jeremias Falk, Esau sell his birthright, 1663. Copper engraving, after Gerrit van Honthorst, after Tintoretto, as mentioned in the plate inscriptions lower right.

Large margins, small margin around the plate edge. Two dampstains at lower. Overall good condition.
Image size with small margin around the plate edge: 34 x 40 cm
Total dimensions: 37 x 44. 5 cm

Jeremias Falck (Polish: Jeremiasz Falck; 1610–1677) was an engraver of the 17th century Baroque, born and active in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Born probably around 1610 in Danzig (Gdańsk) , in Royal Prussia (a fief of the Crown of Poland) . Falck studied and worked with Wilhelm Hondius. In 1639 he moved to Paris, and in 1649 he became Royal Swedish engraver for Queen Christina in Sweden until 1654, when she became a Catholic. He then went to the Netherlands, where he engraved a portrait of Willem Blaeu, and to Germany. In 1662 in Hamburg he published 16 engravings of flowers and plants. He engraved the royals of the places he worked and he intermittently worked in Danzig.