Adoration of the Shepherds, 1594

  • Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch, 1558-1617

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 18 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (47.6 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 19 1/4 × 14 1/4 inches (48.9 × 36.2 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S528

Signed and dated, in plate, lower left of image: [artist's monogram] | 1594

Inscribed, in plate, lowerleft edge of image: 3 Inscribed, in plate, below image: Cœli opifex, rerum dominus, Diuûm ata[] hominum Rex | Naseitur en vilis tuguri sub panpere tecto, || Et prasepe tenet, quem non capit arduus æther, | Non mare, non tellus, non vasti machina mundi. Inscribed, lower right corner: F. Estius.

September 1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hendrick Goltzius, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1594, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S528.