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The Infant Blowing Soap-Bubbles

Jerome [Hieronymous] Wierix

The Infant Blowing Soap-Bubbles

1572-1618

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Jerome [Hieronymous] Wierix

The Infant Blowing Soap-Bubbles

1572-1618

Physical Qualities Engraving, Mount: 125 × 84 mm. (4 15/16 × 3 5/16 in.) Sheet: 105 × 70 mm. (4 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.) Plate: 100 × 65 mm. (3 15/16 × 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.5373
One from a series of twelve plates plus title.

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower center, in plate two columns of text in Latin, each three lines, beginning "Dic, o Puer; Homo Bulla [...]"; below image, lower center, in plate "Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excudit. Cum Gratia et Priuilegio. Buschere." Verso of mount: center in graphite diamond with "6435"

Markings: CM: Claghorn (on verso of mount)

Artist

Jerome [Hieronymous] Wierix

1552–1618

Flemish, 1553-1619
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