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Christ's Descent into Limbo (from a Passion of Christ series)
Designed and engraved by: Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 8.9 x 5.5 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6824
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 355; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 182
Signed
lower left to right, in margin below image: Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud. Cum Gratia et Priuilegio. Buschere.
Marks
verso, collector's mark in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6824; in graphite: 355
Inscriptionsin plate, in margin below image: Penetrabo omnes inferiores partes terrae,/et illuminabo omnes sperantes in/Domino. Eccles. 24.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897