[Magi warned in a dream not to return to Herod]

[Sadeler, Jan, 1550-1600?]

[Groeningen, Gerard van, active 1561-1575]

[Jode, Gérard de 1509-1591]

print

Edition Statement 1ed. ; Print Statement2

[Gérard de Jode]

(Antwerp]

[c. 1579]

1 print : engraving ; plate mark 205 x 249 mm. on sheet 330 x 225 mm.

paper

Latin

Netherlands

Numbered in the bottom right of centre: "7". In the lower margin: "Angelus in ʃommis ... remeare domum Math. 2.".

Biblioteca Angelica 4

Print cut and pasted 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. Problably, this prints was originally part of series of 'Youth of Christ', included also in the "Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti" published by Gerard de Iode. Statement of print, engraver and inventor based on The New Hollstein. On the sheet, in black ink: "Li Magi sono avvisati in Sogno dagl'Angeli di prendere nel ritorno un'altra Strada.". Very Foxing.

Fair

Herod I, King of Judea, 73 B.C.-4 B.C

Jesus Christ. Nativity
Angels

Biblioteca Angelica

Fondo Manoscritti

MS.LAT.848,44

The New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, Gerard van Groeningen, part. I, Rotterdam, 1997, p. 93, n° 63, state II.

Rijksmuseum’s digital copy