The Christ Child strews a bed of roses for himself inside the believer's heart which is surrounded by roses and venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.

  • Wierix, Antonie, -1604.
Date:
[1600?]
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31759i
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Cor Jesu amanti sacrum
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The Christ Child strews a bed of roses for himself inside the believer's heart which is surrounded by roses and venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

[Antwerp] : Anton. Wierix, [1600?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 7.7 x 5.9 cm.

Lettering

Euge puer, rosis pinge, latus hoc, et illud cinge, Totum cinge corculum. Sparge foetus verni roris, sparge totam messem Chloris: sternis tibi lectulum. Anton. Wierx fecit et excud. Translation of lettering: Bravo boy! paint this side and that and surround it with roses, surround the entire little heart! Spread the fruit of the spring dew, spread the entire harvest of the realm of flowers [?]: you are [thus] laying a cot for yourself

Notes

In the seventeenth century the prints in this series (Cor Jesu amanti sacrum) were used in catechisms by Jesuit preachers in Fujian, China: E. Menegon, op. cit.

References note

M. Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Les estampes des Wierix, Vol. 1 Brussels 1978, nos. 442
Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, vol. LXI, The Wierix Family: part III, compiled by Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Rotterdam 2003, no. 453
Eugenio Monegon, 'Jesuit emblematica in China: the circulation of allegorical images in late Ming Fujian, according to Chinese and Western sources', Monumenta serica, 2007

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Wellcome Collection 31759i

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