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The Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 9.2 x 5.8 cm (3 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 9.6 x 6.2 cm (3 3/4 x 2 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 9.6 x 6.2 cm (3 3/4 x 2 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6846
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Mauquoy-Hendrickx 724
Signed
lower left to right, in box below image: Hieronymus Wierx excud. Cum Gratia et Priuilegio. Piermans.
Marks
verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6846
Inscriptionsin plate, in box below image: Sicut dies verni circumdabant eam/flores rosarum. Ex off. Eccles.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897