Allegory of the Salvation of Mankind
Maker
(artist)
1553-1619
(engraver)
1553-1619
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
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
Keywords
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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