Jerome [Hieronymous] Wierix
The Nativity
before 1619
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 107 × 69 mm. (4 3/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
Plate: 103 × 65 mm. (4 1/16 × 2 9/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the series "The Life of the Virgin"
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.5369
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower center, in plate two columns of text in Latin, each three lines, beginning "Ecce panis [...]"; below image, lower center, in plate "Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excudit. Cum Gratia et Priuilegio. Piermans." Verso: upper left in graphite diamond with "6431"; center in graphite "419 / 10"; lower center in graphite "[indecipherable] / 69 No 418 [indecipherable]"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
