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Pieta
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 8.2 x 5.3 cm (3 1/4 x 2 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 9.3 x 6.1 cm (3 11/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 9.3 x 6.1 cm (3 11/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6804
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Avin 273; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 371 (I)
Signed
lower left to lower right, in box below image: Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud. Cum Gratia et Priuilegio. Buschere.
Marks
verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6804, in graphite: 273
InscriptionsO quam tristis et afflicta, fuit illa benedicta,/mater vnigeniti. Ex hymno eccles.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897