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Pope Innocent IX (1519-1591)
Anton Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1552–1624?)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 13.7 x 8.2 cm (5 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6999
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 1948; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1846 (II)
Signed
Signed in plate, lower right: Anton.Wierx Sculp./et excudit.
Marks
No watermark; verso, MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6999; in graphite: 8074/h/vn
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in bottom margin: SMVS D.N. INNOCENTIVS IX./Christiana plebs, sub tanto.Pontifice, credulitatis suae/meritis augeatur.
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.