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The King Sending his Servants to Invite the Guests

Johannes Wierix, Maarten de Vos, and others

The King Sending his Servants to Invite the Guests

1556-1584

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The King Sending his Servants to Invite the Guests

1556-1584

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed to platemark): 224 × 269 mm. (8 13/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.11826
One from a series of three plates engraved by Johannes Wierix after Maarten de Vos.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "M.D.VOS.INVENT. / Saedler. excud."; below image, lower margin, in plate, additional lines of text in Latin

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Johannes Wierix

1548–1619

Flemish, c. 1549-c. 1620
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Artist

Maarten de Vos

1531–1602

Flemish, 1532-1603
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Subject

Sadeler

2000–2000

Use this constituent when a print bears the inscription of an unspecified member of the Sadeler family as artist or publisher.
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