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The Nativity, with the Annunciation to the Shepherds (from a Life of the Virgin series)
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 10.3 x 6.7 cm (4 1/16 x 2 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 10.7 x 7 cm (4 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 10.7 x 7 cm (4 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number64.2209
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 420 (II); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 622 (II)
Signed
Signed in plate, in box below image: Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excudit. Cum Gratia et Priuilego. Piermans.
Marks
Verso, MFA stamp with accession number in pencil: 64.2209; in graphite: No. 12; A420II
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in box below image, left: Pax et Salus, O Pastores;/Inter vmbras et horreres/Caeli chorus iubilat.; right: Ite laeti; gaudet mater,/Iudit puer, rider pater,/Nil in autro nubilat.
Provenance1964, gift of anonymous collector to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1964)