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The Martyrdom of St. James the Lesser

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Maarten de Vos
1532-1603

The Martyrdom of St. James the Lesser

7 5/16 x 11 inches (185 x 280 mm)
Pen and brown ink, and wash, with opaque white, over black chalk, on paper.
2006.23:19
Notes
Watermark: none.
No engraving known. Presumably a copy after a lost drawing. The original design by De Vos was engraved, in reverse, by Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) as one of a series of twelve martyrdoms of the Apostles.
Folio 19 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.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in brown ink, "M.D. VOS: F." On gray mount in Fairfax Murray's hand, in pencil, "copy".
Associated names
Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617, 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, no. 238.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department