Spes, plate 2 from The Seven Virtuesc. 1598
Hieronymous Wierix made this in about 1598, aged 45. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. More about this work
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A work made of engraving on paper.
Description from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Hieronymous Wierix made this in about 1598, aged 45. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
How it was made
- Engraving
- Lines cut directly into a metal plate with a steel burin, which makes them swell and taper. It took years to master, and for centuries it was how paintings travelled as pictures.
Hieronymous Wierix
Flemish, 1553–1619
Wierix belonged to a family of Antwerp engravers and worked alongside his brothers Johannes and Anton. Trained young, the brothers were remarkable for minute, precise burin work, and they produced great numbers of small devotional engravings for Catholic patrons, the Jesuits among them, during the Counter-Reformation. Their sheets of saints, virtues and scenes from the life of Christ circulated widely, reaching missions as far away as Asia and the Americas.
Written by Ochre Editions.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 2023.3190.3
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Type
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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