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Saint John the Baptist

Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 8.8 x 5.8 cm (3 7/16 x 2 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 9.7 x 6.5 cm (3 13/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6906
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 963; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1179
Signed below image: Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud. Cum Gratia et Priuilegio. Piermans.
Marks verso, collector's mark in red: H.F.S.; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6906; in graphite: 963
Inscriptionsin plate: Ecce agnus Dei, ecce qui tollit/peccata mundi. Ioan.1.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897