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Maarten de Vos
1532-1603
The Persecution of the Servants of Christ : Luke 21:12
1582
Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on paper; incised with the stylus.
7 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (200 x 267 mm)
2006.23:21
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Watermark: none.
Engraved in reverse by Jerome Wierix (1553-1619).
Folio 21 from an album by de Vos with drawings illustrating the Life of David and Subjects from the New Testament. Also see record for album as a whole.
Inscription:
Signed and dated at lower right, "M D VOS.F 1582".
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Wierix, Jeronimus, 1553-1619, engraver.
Bibliography:
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 109, no. 240, repr.
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