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Divinus Amor

Jerome [Hieronymous] Wierix

Divinus Amor

1572-1618

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Jerome [Hieronymous] Wierix

Divinus Amor

1572-1618

Physical Qualities Engraving, Mount: 126 × 89 mm. (4 15/16 × 3 1/2 in.) Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 109 × 71 mm. (4 5/16 × 2 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.5385

Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper center, in plate "DIVINVS AMOR" [with additional inscriptions in Latin in image]; below image, lower center, in plate six lines of text in Latin beginning "Dius amor [...]; below image, lower left, in plate "Hieronymus Wierx / fecit et excud."; below image, lower right, in plate "Cum Gratia et Privilegio / Buschere" Verso of mount: center in graphite diamond with "6444"; lower center in graphite "ALV. 1197"

Markings: CM: Claghorn (on verso of mount)

Artist

Jerome [Hieronymous] Wierix

1552–1618

Flemish, 1553-1619
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