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Title: [Defendors of the Catholic church in the Netherlands]
Engraver: Wierix, Johannes, 1549-c. 1620
Inventor: Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603
Printer/Publisher: Huybrechts, Adriaan, c.1550-after 1614
Medium: print
Edition/Print Statement: Print Statement [2]
Name of publisher: AHuberti D.D.
Place of publication: Antwerp
Date of publication: [1587]
Physical description: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 276 x 195 mm. on sheet 295 x 214 mm.
Materials: paper
Language: Latin
Country: Netherlands
Inscriptions: in image, lower left: "M.D.V. figura."; lower right: "Ioan. W. sculp."; on platform in centre: "S.P.Q.A. Ahuberti D.D."; in sky, underneath Mary: "Per me Re:ges Reg:nat."; in centre of image: "Et Legum Conditores iusta discernunt".
Collectors' marks: L.4559
Curatorial Comment: In the upper part of the image, the Virgin and child appear on a crescent moon, surrounded by angels. Underneath are depicted Charles V, Philip II, Alessandro Farnese and John of Austria and several courtiers to represent the defendors of the Catholic fai
Conservation: fair
Personal Name: Jesus Christ
Mary, blessed virgin, saint
Philip II, king of Spain, 1526-1598
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
John, of Austria, 1547-1578
Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, 1545-1592
Topical Term: religion
allegories
Location: Biblioteca Casanatense
: Fondo Stampe e Disegni
: 20.A.III.100/99
Album's component: 20.A.III.100
Bibliography: F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, Vol. XLIV, Maarten de Vos, Rotterdam, 1996, p. 268, n° 1343.
Link: Collectors' marks url

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