Hendrick Goltzius
The Circumcision, from the Life of the Virgin

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Artist Hendrick Goltzius Dutch, 1558–1617

CultureDutch

Titles

The Circumcision, from the Life of the Virgin

Date1594

MediumEngraving on laid paper

Dimensions480 × 355 mm
Plate or block: 18 7/8 × 14 in. (47.9 × 35.6 cm)
Sheet: 19 5/16 × 14 1/2 in. (49.1 × 36.8 cm)

Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston

Object numberBF.2000.7

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Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

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PRINTS

Provenance[Susan Schulman Printseller, New York, and Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints & Drawings, Dallas]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 2000.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscriptions: at lower left: 4; on tablet at lower center: 1594 / HG (monogram); in lower margin: Cernis vt octaua sit circuncisus Jesus / Luce puer, tenero accipiens in corpore vulnus, / Ad normam veteris legis, ritumq[ue] receptum, / Isacidis multos obseruatumq[ue] per annos. / C. Schoneus.

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