# Title page, from The Seven Vices

**Hieronymous Wierix** (Flemish, 1553–1619)  
c. 1598  
Engraving on paper  
Plate: 18.6 × 13.4 cm (7 3/8 × 5 5/16 in.); sheet: 26.2 × 19.5 cm (10 3/8 × 7 11/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.3189.1. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/271107).

## About this work

Hieronymous Wierix made this in about 1598, aged 45. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of engraving on paper.

_Description from 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](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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._

## Facts

- Type: Print
- Culture: Flanders
- The artist was 45
- Real size: about 7 × 5 in (18 × 13 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 16th century
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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