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The Virgin Mary (from an Apostles series)
Anton Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1552–1624?)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 8.2 x 5.9 cm (3 1/4 x 2 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6859
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 699; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 955 (III)
Signed
Signed in plate, below inscription, lower left: Anton. Wierx fecit.; lower right: Hieronymus Wierx excud.
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in margin below image: S. DEI GENIRIX MARIA./Ego mater pulchræ dilectionis.
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.