About the Artwork
Adoration of the Shepherds
1594
Hendrick Goltzius
1558-1617
Dutch
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 18 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (47.6 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 19 1/4 × 14 1/4 inches (48.9 × 36.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S528
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, lower left of image: [artist's monogram] | 1594
Inscribed, in plate, lowerleft edge of image: 3 Inscribed, in plate, below image: Cœli opifex, rerum dominus, Diuûm ata[] hominum Rex | Naseitur en vilis tuguri sub panpere tecto, || Et prasepe tenet, quem non capit arduus æther, | Non mare, non tellus, non vasti machina mundi. Inscribed, lower right corner: F. Estius.
Provenance
September 1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hendrick Goltzius, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1594, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S528.
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