PrintsDutch16th century

The Adoration of the Magi

c. 1593

Artists

Hendrick GoltziusArtist

Classification

Prints

Technique

Engraving

Medium

Engraving on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Dutch

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

image: 46.4 × 35 cm (18 1/4 × 13 3/4 in.) plate: 47.6 × 35.2 cm (18 3/4 × 13 7/8 in.) sheet: 48 × 35.6 cm (18 7/8 × 14 in.)

Provenance

Jan Baptiste de Graaf (1742-1804), Amsterdam (Lugt 1120). Dr. Wilhelm August Ackermann (1793-1865), Lubeck and Dresden (Lugt 791). Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

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