Hendrick Goltzius
The Adoration of the Magi
1587-1597
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 485 x 364 mm. (19 1/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
Plate: 473 x 354 mm. (18 5/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12049
One from a series of six prints "The Birth and Early Life of Christ" (1593-94), also known as the "Meisterstiche," or "Life of the Virgin" in the manner of various artists (see notes for additional details); the complete series is in the Garrett Collection (1946.112.12045 - 1946.112.12050).
Walters Art Gallery, "African Image: Representations of the Black throughout History," 17 February - 30 March 1980 (no cat).
James Clifton, Sarah Campbell, and Walter Melion, The Museum of Biblical Art, NY, "Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustrations in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century," 4 June - 27 September 2009, traveled to Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 17 October 2009 - 24 January 2010, cat. 27b.
James Clifton, Sarah Campbell, and Walter Melion, The Museum of Biblical Art, NY, "Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustrations in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century," 4 June - 27 September 2009, traveled to Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 17 October 2009 - 24 January 2010, cat. 27b.
Melion, Walter. "Karel van Mander's 'Life of Goltzius:' Defining the Paradigm of Protean Virtuosity in Haarlen around 1600," in Studies in the History of Art, 27 (1988) pp 113-123.
Melion, Walter. "Hendrik Goltzius's Project of Reproductive Engraving," Art History, 13, no 1 (December 1990), pp. 458-473.
Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper left, in plate "HG"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "E ói Regis Bethen [...]"; below image, lower right, in plate "F. Estius." Verso: in graphite diamond with "9099 / 5"
Markings: CM: Julian Marshall (L. 1494); Claghorn (on verso of mount)
