Artist : Marcelle Hanselaar
Title : The Refusal, Queen Vashti
Medium : etching / aquatint, ed 30
Dimensions : 38 x 43 cm, plate size 20 x 25 cm


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Queen Vashti was a queen of Persia and the first wife of Persian King Ahasuerus. When the King was merry with wine, he commanded to bring the Queen before him wearing the royal crown so he could impress the peoples and the officials with her great beauty. When she point blank. refused to be ogled at by the drunken guests of the king’s banquet he dethroned her for her dissent. The King later chose Esther to succeed her.