[Adoration of the Shepherds]
Wierix, Jeronimus, 1553-1619
Passeri, Bernardino, approximately 1540-1596
[Nuyts, Martin, 1553-1608]
print
Edition Statement 1ed. ; Print Statement1
(Antwerp]
[1593]
1 print : engraving ; plate mark 233 x 147 mm. on sheet 330 x 225 mm.
paper
Latin
Netherlands
In the upper margin: "IN AVRORA NATALIS DOMINI. De Pastoribus. Luc. ij. Anno i.". Numbered in the above right corner: "4 vi". In the bottom left corner, on the wooden sticks: "B. Paʃʃ. R. inuent.". In the bottom right corner, on the stone: "Hieron. W. ʃculp.". In the lower margin: "A. Turris Heder, vbi Pastores colloquuntur ... D. Reverʃi ad ʃuos, narrant omnia.".
Biblioteca Angelica 4
Print bound in the first (MS.LAT.848) of the five Angelica's manuscripts "La scuola del cristiano" (MS.LAT.848-52) edited to Rome in 1833. This prints was originally included in the first edition of "Evangelica Historiae Imagines" of Géronimo Nadal, published probably by Martin Nuyts (printer of the second and the third edition) in Antwerp (1593). Titled, edition and statement of print based on the Hollstein. On the sheet, in black ink: "L'Aurora del SSmo Natale, ossia l'Adorazione dei Pastori.".
Good
Jesus Christ. Nativity
Biblioteca Angelica
Fondo Manoscritti
MS.LAT.848,36
Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, The Wierix Family, Book illustrations part. II, Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel 2007, p. 12, n° 56.5, state I.