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Saint Lydtwina [?]

Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 5.8 x 4.2 cm (2 5/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 9.1 x 7 cm (3 9/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6887
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 816; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1227 (B8)
Signed not signed
Marks recto, lower right, in graphite: copy; verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6887; in graphite: 816
Inscriptionsin plate, below image: Animas è purgatorio liberat,/paenis in suo corpore/susceptis./8.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897