The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.

  • Maratti, Carlo, 1625-1713.
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The text from Isaiah ("And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising") is compared with the story from Matthew 2.2 about the kings following the star to Bethlehem. Light emanates from the finger of the Christ child. The kings all hold vases; a crown and a sceptre lie on the ground. One king wears a turban below his crown. A broken wooden roof joins with a large stone pillar

Publication/Creation

Romae [Rome] : Apud Iacobum Frey cum priuil. summi pont et regis christ.mi.

Physical description

1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 55.5 x 33.1 cm

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Lettering

Reges in splendore ortus tui. Isa: cap: 60. v. 3. Carol. Marrattus pinx. N. Dorigny sculp. ... Lettering continues: "Et intrantes domum inuenerunt puerum cum Maria matre ejus, et prodicentes adorauerunt eum; et apertis thesauris suis obtulerunt ei munera aurum, thus, et myrrham. Matth. cap. 2. v. ii"

References note

Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des estampes, tome 3, Paris 1954, p. 503, N. Dorigny no. 110 ('110. Adoration des Mages. Sous le tr. v.: "Carol Marrattus pinx. N. Dorigny sculp.". En marge: "Reges in splendore... [etc.]". Dessous privilège et excudit de J. Frey, à Rome. H. 0m520 x L. 0m320. L'état décrit … Tirage moderne …')

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Wellcome Collection 24059i

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