The Christ Child cleans the believer's heart with a hand-held mop, assisted and venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.

  • Wierix, Antonie, -1604.
Date:
[1600?]
Reference:
31784i
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Cor Jesu amanti sacrum
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[Antwerp] : Anton. Wierix, [1600?]

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

Lettering

Eia Iesu tibi notum cor, si lubet, lustra totum, pia tuo sanguine. An non cernis? tota patet ara cordis, nil te latet: Fove tuo lumine. Anton. Wierx fecit et excud. Translation of lettering: Ahh, Jesus, the heart which you know, clean it all, if you like, purify it with your blood! Or do you not see? The whole altar of the heart lies open, nothing is hidden from you. Sustain it with your light

References note

M. Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Les estampes des Wierix, vol. 1, Brussels 1978, nos. 435
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. 451
J. Peto (ed.), The heart, New Haven and London 2007, p. 113
Eugenio Monegon, 'Jesuit emblematica in China: the circulation of allegorical images in late Ming Fujian, according to Chinese and Western sources', Monumenta serica, 2007

Reference

Wellcome Collection 31784i

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.

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