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The Massacre of the Innocents

Maker

(artist)
1532-1603

(printmaker)

(publisher)

Title

The Massacre of the Innocents

Date of Production

1579 - 1582

Dimensions

Height: 19.9 cm
Width: 14.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2740

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords












slaughter





Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, within image: “Martin: de vos inve: / I. Sadler . fecit . et . excud: cum gratia et Priuilegio. S.C.M. //”; lower margin: “Herodes mittens occidit omnes pueros, qui erant in Bethlehem, & in omnibus finib 9 / eius, a bimatu et infra, secundum tempus, quod exquisierat a Magis. Matt: ii //”.

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