The Christ Child deposits the Instruments of the Passion inside the believer's heart. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.

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

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 7.8 x 5.6 cm.

Bone Iesu conde crucem, virgam, Ianceamque trucem, conde in imo corculo. Nulla praevalebit lues, amuleta quando strues hoc myrrhae fasciculo. Anton. Wierx fecit et excud. Translation of lettering: Good Jesus, stow the cross, the lash, and the cruel lance, stow it at the bottom of the little heart. No sin shall prevail, when you pile up this preservative on a gathering of myrrh

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.

M. Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Les estampes des Wierix, vol. 1, Brussels 1978, nos. 444

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. 455

Eugenio Monegon, 'Jesuit emblematica in China: the circulation of allegorical images in late Ming Fujian, according to Chinese and Western sources', Monumenta serica, 2007

Wellcome Collection 31786i

Hollstein records two prints as bearing the number 2 in this series (the present print and Hollstein no. 456 [Wellcome Library catalogue no. 31732i], and no print as bearing the number 3 or 8: one of the two prints numbered as number 2 might be number 3 or number 8