[Adoration of the magi]

Vorsterman, Lucas Emil, 1595-1675

Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640

Vorsterman, Lucas Emil, 1595-1675
[Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640]

Albrecht VII, Archduke of Austria, 1559-1621 (dedicatee)

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Lucas Vorsterman sculp. et excud. An.° 1620

Antwerp]

1620

1 print : engraving on sheet 582 x 435 mm (trimmed).

paper

Latin

[Netherlands]

In lower margin: "SERENISSIMO ET POTENTISSIMO ALBERTO AVSTR. ARCHID. BVRG. ET BELGARVM CLEMENTISSIMO D.no. ARTIS ET DEVOTIONIS SVAE SPEOIMEN, PETRVS PAVLVS RVBENS, EX FIDO CVLTV HVMILITER DEDICAT CONSECRATQVE."; In lower margin, in lower left: "P. P. Rubens pinxit."; In lower margin, in lower centre: "Cum priuilegijs, Regis Christianißimi, Principum Belgarum, & ordinum Batauiae."; In lower margin, in lower right: "Lucas Vorsterman sculp. et excud. An.° 1620.".

The prints are trimmed and pasted into volume Stampe.V.111 ("STAMPE DI RVBENS"), that has a dimension of 705 x 494 x 49 mm; Losses in the left and lower margin, which causes that some letters of the address in the lower margin are lost.

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Lugt 240c

Privilege in lower centre; For more information, see British Museum, collection online (inv. nr. 1917,1208.548) and Rijksmuseum, collection online (inv. nr. RP-P-OB-70.343).

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Lord's Supper--Adoration

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Fondo antico

Stampe.V.111(22)

Link to album description

Stampe.V.111

Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish), Vol. 43, 1993, p. 16, 17, n. 8.

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