Hendrick Goltzius
The Adoration of the Shepherds
1594
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Mount: 479 x 368 mm. (18 7/8 x 14 1/2 in.)
Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 475 x 354 mm. (18 11/16 x 13 15/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 3 from the series "The Birth and Early Life of Christ"
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12047
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "HG. / Ao 1594"; in image, lower left, in plate "3"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Coeli opifex, rerum [...]"; below image, lower right, in plate "F. Estius." Verso of mount: lower left in graphite diamond with "9099 / 3"
Markings: CM: Claghorn (on verso of mount)
