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The Sermon on the Mount, or, The Foretelling of the Destruction of the Temple : Luke 6:12-49 and Luke 21:29-35

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Maarten de Vos
1532-1603

The Sermon on the Mount, or, The Foretelling of the Destruction of the Temple : Luke 6:12-49 and Luke 21:29-35

1583
7 7/8 x 10 1/8 inches (201 x 258 mm)
Pen and brown ink, grey-brown wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on paper.
2006.23:18
Notes
Watermark: none.
Engraved in reverse by Jerome Wierix (1553-1619).
Folio 18 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
Signed and dated at lower left, in brown ink, "M. [period in superscript] D Vos F 1583".
Associated names
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. 108, no. 237, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department