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Object Type
Museum number: 1859,0709.3216
Description: Five medallions interconnected by lettered bands, evoking the journey of the soul after death, seen at bottom left; all ways leading to to the Last Judgement, seen at top right; the soul avoiding the central medallion representing Christ crucified as the water of life is damned to go to hell at bottom right; those following the way of Christ end up in heaven at top left, taking either the short way or the longer one via the purgatory at bottom centre. Engraving
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School/style
Production date: 1619 (before)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 134 millimetres; Width: 92 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1810) (Wierix); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 / Les Estampes des Wierix ... catalogue raisonné (1492); Alvin 1866 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères Jan, Jérome et Antoine Wierix (1155)
Location: Not on display
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Associated names
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Heaven; Topographic representation of: Hell/Hades
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1859
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1859,0709.3216

Free entry