Inscribed with letters within drawing. No. 7 inscribed at lower middle: Hier. Wierix. Sculpsit. Each drawing (without frontispiece) with two line Latin captiation in top margin, followed by the biblical chapter and the year since Christ's birth, in top margin right the chronological numbers, with below a roman number referring to the relevant religious feast. Key to the letters of the scene in lower margin
1 album
: pen and brown ink (laid down); one additional drawing with no. 61 in pen and brown ink, brush and brown ink washes, traces of black chalk ; 192 x 147 mm (frontispiece); c. 170 x 143 mm (other drawings)
Jesuit college, Antwerp (1723); Library of the city of Brussels; transfer to the Royal Library of Belgium at its foundation in 1837
Materiaal
paper
Annotatie
Frontispiece and 156 preparatory drawings bound with the prints engraved in reverse by Hieronymus, Antonius II, Johannes Wierix, Karel de Mallery and Adriaen and Jan II Collaert in an album. Drawing no. 61 in the same direction but different from the print, with attached the preparatory drawing to the print attributed to Maerten de Vos. No. 3 and 4 have two preparatory drawings by the same hand. No. 63 is different from the print; no. 107, 108, 110, 111 in the same direction.
Tentoonstelling (annotatie)
1958, Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium, "Rijkdom van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België"; 1989, May-July, Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium, "Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België: 150ste verjaardag van de openstelling voor het publiek. 21 mei 1938:150 merkwaardige stukken uit haar verzamelingen/Bibliothèque royale de Belgique: 150ème anniversaire de l'ouverture au public, 21 mai 1839 : 150 pièces remarquables choisies dans ses collections"; 2023, April-July, Antwerp, Church of Carolus Borromeus, "Barokke Influencers. Jezuïten, Rubens en de kunst van het overtuigen"
Bibliografische referentie
Marie Mauquoy-Hendrickx, 'Note sur une édition de la bible de Natalis', in: Le livre et l'estampe, 47-48 (1966), pp. 28-63; Maj-Brit Wadell, Evangelicae Historiae Imagines. Entstehungsgeschichte und Vorlagen, Göteborg 1985
Exemplaar (annotatie)
on album leaves: mark KBR in black ink (not in Lugt); mark KBR ('Bibliotheque Royale fonds de la ville') in black ink
Evangelicae historiae imagines
[Drawing]. - 1 album
: pen and brown ink (laid down); one additional drawing with no. 61 in pen and brown ink, brush and brown ink washes, traces of black chalk ; 192 x 147 mm (frontispiece); c. 170 x 143 mm (other drawings). - Frontispiece and 156 preparatory drawings bound with the prints engraved in reverse by Hieronymus, Antonius II, Johannes Wierix, Karel de Mallery and Adriaen and Jan II Collaert in an album. Drawing no. 61 in the same direction but different from the print, with attached the preparatory drawing to the print attributed to Maerten de Vos. No. 3 and 4 have two preparatory drawings by the same hand. No. 63 is different from the print; no. 107, 108, 110, 111 in the same direction. - Marie Mauquoy-Hendrickx, 'Note sur une édition de la bible de Natalis', in: Le livre et l'estampe, 47-48 (1966), pp. 28-63; Maj-Brit Wadell, Evangelicae Historiae Imagines. Entstehungsgeschichte und Vorlagen, Göteborg 1985. - on album leaves: mark KBR in black ink (not in Lugt); mark KBR ('Bibliotheque Royale fonds de la ville') in black ink.
