BEHAM Hans Sebald (1500 - 1550) - "Adam and Eve (and Death)". 1543. Engraving after Barthel Beham (1502-1540). Signed with the artist's monogram upper left. Ref: Bartsch, no. 6. Hollstein, no. 7. Proof of a fine impression on thin laid paper. For disobeying God's orders and eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve received the punishment of mortality, hard work and pain. A skeleton, an obvious symbol of death, forms the trunk of the fatal tree, and the evil serpent makes its way through the skeleton's hollow torso. 8.2 x 5.6 cm. Condition A/B (cut to subject, paper thinning, small red stain on Eve's sale, fine impression).