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The Infant Christ with the Instruments of the Passion

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

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 8.9 x 6.3 cm (3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 9.5 x 6.8 cm (3 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6925
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 1104; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 485
Signed lower left to lower right: 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: 6925; in graphite: 1104
Inscriptionsin plate, below image: In laboribus a iuuentute mea.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897