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The Holy Family in a Garden (from a Life of the Virgin series)
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 10.4 x 6.7 cm (4 1/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 10.7 x 7.9 cm (4 3/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 10.7 x 7.9 cm (4 3/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number64.2211
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 430 (II); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 631 (II)
Signed
Signed in plate, in box below image: Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud. Cum Gratia et Priuilego. Piermans.
Marks
Verso, MFA stamp with accession number in pencil: 64.2211; in graphite: No. 22; A430II
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in box below image, left: Carpe mater, carpe flores,/Verne temporis honores,/Carpe pater lilium.; right: Floris honor hic vilescit,/Dum caelestis horti crescit/Puer hic delicium.
Provenance1964, gift of anonymous collector to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1964)