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The Virgin Received in Heaven (from a Life of the Virgin series)
Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 10.6 x 6.6 cm (4 3/16 x 2 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 11 x 6.9 cm (4 5/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 11 x 6.9 cm (4 5/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number64.2212
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 439 (II); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 640 (II)
Signed
Signed in plate, in box below image: Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud. Cum Gratia et Priuilego. Piermans.
Marks
Verso, MFA stamp with accession number in pencil: 64.2212; in graphite: No. 31; A439II
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, in box below image, left: Scand Mater Deo grata,/Peccatorum aduocata,/Scand Super sidera:; right: Quando tuus dulcis natus/Poenas poscet implacatus,/Tunc oftendes vbera.
Provenance1964, gift of anonymous collector to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1964)