Author: WIERIX Johannes ( ca. 1549 - 1615 ) - Saint LUKE :
Title: Sint Lucas. ( Saint Luke ) - Original engraving by Johannes Wierix.
Description: Antwerpen, publisher Johannes Baptista Vrints, 1585, original engraving 207 x 264 mm, printed on paper, engraved by Wierix , designed by Maerten de Vos. Caption underneath reads '' Lucas evangely scriptor bove pingitur...''. This print formed part of suite of engravings '' Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris ( et novi) testamenti....editus sumptibus atque expensis Gerardi de Iode AN. 1585''. Fine printing with ample margins. See Hollstein Dutch 1121. Mauquoy-Hendricx 834. The plate can be seen on internet as item RP-P-1988-312-214 in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. (The evangelist Saint Luke is writing while sitting on a winged cow, on the right in the background is a nativity scene). .

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