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The Virgin and Child

Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Or: Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)
After: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 14.4 x 10 cm (5 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6856
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 628; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 749
Signed not signed
Marks no watermark; verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6856
Inscriptionsin plate, lower center: Æ.14; on tablet, lower right: 1520/[Dürer's monogram]
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897