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Allegory of the Salvation of Mankind

Maker

(artist)
1553-1619

(engraver)
1553-1619

Title

Allegory of the Salvation of Mankind

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 16.9 cm
Width: 12.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2846

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within the image, upper centre edge, black ink: “Memorare NOVISSIMA// tua: et in aeternum // non peccabis. eccti.7”; in the frame around the upper left edge roundel, black ink: “BEATI QVI HABITATNT IN DOMO TVA DOMINE. psal. 83”; in the connecting band, black ink: “Procedent, qui bona fecerunt resurrectionem vitae. Ioan . 5 .”; in the frame aound the central rounde, black ink: “FACTUS EST OMNIBUS OBTEMPERANTIBUS SIBI CAUSA SALUTIS AETERNAE Hebr. 5”; in the connecting bands “Beati mortui qui in Domino // moriuntur Apoc. 14.” and: “Ipse quidem in salus erit”; in the frame around lower left roundel, black ink: “STATUM EST HOMINIBUS SEMEL MORI Hebr.9”; in the connecting bands, black ink: “Mors peccaturum pessima Psal. 33”; in the frame around the upper right edge roundel, black ink: “OMNES NOS MANIFESTARI OPORTET ANTE TRIBVNAL DOMNI. 2. Cor.5.”; in the connecting bands, black ink: “Sic tamen quasi per ignem i.cor.3” and “qui vero mala egerunt // in resurrectionem iudicij Ioan 5.”; in the frame aroun the lower right roundel, black ink: “QVI DESCENDERIT INFEROS, NON ASCENDET. Iob.7.”; below the image, black ink: “Gens absque cinsilio est; sine prudential: // Vtinam saperent, et intelligerent, ac Nouissima prouiderent, Deut.32. // Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud. Cum Gratia et priuilegio. Buschere.”.

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