Hendrick Goltzius and Claes Jansz Visscher
The Massacre of the Innocents
1579-1589
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 499 x 377 mm. (19 5/8 x 14 13/16 in.)
Plate: 488 x 371 mm. (19 3/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12051
From an unfinished plate which formed the right half of a composition designed to be printed from two plates.
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2025
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower right, in plate "HG"; below image, lower center, in plate "CIVisscher Excudit. [CIV interlaced]"; below image, lower left, in graphite "Ra[indecipherable] inv. / [indecipherable/erased]"; below image, lower right, in graphite indecipherable Verso: lower left in graphite "B 23"; lower left in graphite diamond with "9100"; lower right in graphite indecipherable
Markings: CM: Unidentified "M" blindstamp (not in Lugt); Claghorn WM: "IHS" with crest/crown (?)
