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)
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
Non exposé
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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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