The Virgin suckling the Christ Child sitting in the believer's heart, accompanied by two angels singing and playing a string instrument. Engraving by A. Wierix.

  • Wierix, Antonie, -1604.
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31741i
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Antwerp : A. Wierix

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 8.7 x 6.2 cm

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Coelitum silete cori, conticescant cantica; Mater, natus dulciori corda mulcent musica. Anton Wierx fecit

References note

M. Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Les estampes des Wierix, vol. 1, Brussels 1978, nos. 429-446, pp. 68-79.

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Wellcome Collection 31741i

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