Inscription
in plate, across top: HENRICVS II DEI GRATIA NAVARRÆ REX PRINCEPS BEARNILDVX VINDOCINI, BELLIMONTIS [abraded]/ETH, COMES FOXII, ARMENIACI [?] PRIMVS/PRINCEPS ET PRIMVS PAR FRANCIAE; left of king's head: HEINRI.IIII/.ET. REX; right of king's head: REX.FRANCIÆ/NAVARRÆ; bottom margin: PINGE.PIETATEM.BELLI.FVLMENO.FIDEMOEXPRESSIT.PELAGO.TERRIS.COELOQ.PATENTI/HENRICI.VVLTVM.PINXERIS.ATO.ANIMVM SISTADEVS.NOSTRA NILOPVS ARTE FVIP
Signed
.H.W. paulus. Brachfelt. excu. [last two words abaded]
Marks
watermark [unidentified]; verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp in purple with accession number in ink: 6998
Provenance
Henry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection
- Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix, Netherlandish, about 1553–1619
Catalogue Raisonné
Alvin 1925; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1831 (II)
Accession Number
P6998
Medium or Technique
Engraving