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Christ Striking the Hour of Death
Engraved by: Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Publisher: Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Publisher: Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 13.5 x 9.1 cm (5 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6941
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 1182; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1487
Signed
lower left, within image: H.V. Balen in.; below image, lower left to right: Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud. Cum Gratia et Priuilegio. Buschere.
Marks
recto, lower right, in graphite: A 1182; verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6941; in graphite: 7790; 1182; EOK; 19/6
Inscriptionsin plate, below image: Frondeo frugis inops: Si mors secat, atrrrebat orcus./Iudicis extentam, Virgo, morare manum.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897