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Charity

Designed by: Johannes Stradanus (Netherlandish, 1523–1605)
Engraved by: Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Publisher: Philips Galle (Netherlandish, 1537–1612)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 18.7 x 13.3 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 19.5 x 14.2 cm (7 11/16 x 5 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6970
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 1370; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1367
Signed In cartouche: Ioan. Stradan. inven./Hieronimus Wirix Sculp./Phls Galle excud.
Marks [unidentified] watermark; recto, upper left, in ink: 4; lower left, in graphite: 1370
InscriptionsIn plate, upper center: CHARITAS.; in rectangular space below main image: Nunc autem manent, Fides, Spes, Charitas, tria haec./maior autem horum est Charitas. 1 Cor. 13./3
ProvenanceFranz Jozef von Enzenberg (1802-1879, Innsbruck); Henry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897