Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 232 × 142 mm. (9 1/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.5461
Wierix belonged to a family of Flemish printmakers active mainly in Antwerp in the last quarter of the sixteenth and first quarter of the seventeenth centuries. Jesuits and other militant Counter-Reformation sects commissioned most of the large numbers of
engraved works the family produced.
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "Ber. Pass. Rom. inven."; in image, lower right, in plate "Ant. Wierx sculpsit" [with additional inscriptions in Latin above and below image] Verso: lower center in graphite diamond with "6475"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
