About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert
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Title
- The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Francis Xavier
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Place
- Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1610–1659
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Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed in plate: “PERILLVSTRI AC REVERENDISSIMO DOMINO D. ANTONIO TRIEST / SEPTIMO GANDENSIVM EPISCOPO, COMITI DE EVERGHEM & c. / S.P. Franciscum Xauerium Orientis Apostolum, ex nocturna cum dæmonibus pugna, instar MAGNI ANTONI, victorem / cælestique Visione Deiparae Virginis recreatum debitæ obseruantiæ monumentum L.M.D.C.Q. Gerardus Seghers”; lower left, in plate: “Gerardus Seghers inventor”; lower center, in plate: “Cum privilegijs”; lower right, in plate: “S. à Bolswert sculpsit”
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Dimensions
- Image: 38.8 × 27.8 cm (15 5/16 × 11 in.); Plate: 42.3 × 28.5 cm (16 11/16 × 11 1/4 in.); Sheet: 44.2 × 30.1 cm (17 7/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Anne-Marie Logan
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Reference Number
- 2014.1157
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/223265/manifest.json