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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M20279
People
Hieronymus Wierix, Netherlandish (c. 1553 - 1619)
After Otto van Veen, Flemish (1556 - 1629)
Title
The Entombment
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
16th-17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/263200

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 30.1 x 22.7 cm (11 7/8 x 8 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Hieronimus Wirix
  • inscription: engraved in lower left of image area: Otto Veenius inventor. / Hieronimus Wirix fecit. / Ioann. Baptista excud.
  • inscription: engraved in lower plate margin: IPSVM GENTES DEPRECABVNTUR, ET ERIT SEPVLCHRVM EIVS GLORIOSVM. ESA. II. // Per varios casus, per tot tormenta, labores, / Quæ tlit, affixus victima facta cruci; // Conditur hic Christi venerandum copus Iesu : / Mors vilis, tumulo gloria magna fuit.
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 380
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written in graphite:


















    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY
    / M20279 [Lugt 936]





State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 384; Maquoy-Hendricks 380; Alix 282

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, George R. Nutter Fund
Object Number
M20279
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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