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Persecutio Servientium Christo

Artist: Hieronymus Wierix (1548-1624)
Title: Persecutio Servientium Christo (Persecution of the Servants of Christ)
Date: ca. 1582
Medium: Engraving [MH 1509] after a design by Maarten de Vos (1532-1603) and and published, in separate editions, by Gerard de Jode (1509-1591), Johan Sadeler I (1550-1600), and Pierre Fierens (1580-1638). Plate 3 of 6 of the Historia Adventus Christi (known also as The Sorrows of the World)
Photo Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Item: 2490AA