[Advent of the Magi]
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 234 x 147 mm. on sheet 330 x 225 mm.
paper
Latin
Netherlands
In the upper margin: "EPIPHANIA DOMINI. Adventus Magorum Matth. ij. Anno i.". Numbered in the above right corner: "6 viij". In the bottom left of centre: "Bern. Paʃʃ. Rom. inuent.". In the bottom right of centre: "Hieronymus W. fecit.". In the lower margin: "A. Hieruʃalem, quo perueniunt Reges Magi ... ʃe ducem Magis offert.".
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: "Arrivo in Gerusalemme delli SS. Rè Magi.".
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Jesus Christ. NativityMagi
Biblioteca Angelica
Fondo Manoscritti
MS.LAT.848,42
Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, The Wierix Family, Book illustrations part. II, Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel 2007, p. 13, n° 56.7, state I.