Book Title: Het Nieuwe Testament ons salichmaeckers Iesv Christi, mitsgaders d'epistelen : wt het Oude Testament, soo die door 't jaer in den dienst der h. kercke ghelesen worden. / Oversien ende verbetert na den laetsten Roomschen text, door den eerw. H. Henricus van den Leemputte, Licentiaet in de h. Godheyt. Verciert met veel schoone figueren, gesneden door Christoffel van Sichem, voor P.I.P.

Author: Leemputte, Henricus van den, 1588-1657

Image Title: Mary and Jesus

Scripture Reference:

• Luke 2 (further images / scripture text)

Description: Mary, wearing a crown and holding a scepter, holds the infant Jesus who makes a sign of blessing with his right hand and holds a globus criciger in the other. Mary stands on a crescent and a serpent. Includes the monogram of the woodcutter, Christoffel van Sichem II (1577-1658); his son, Christoffel van Sichem III (1618-1659), may have collaborated with him on these images. The image also includes an engraver’s knife in the coils of the serpent on the right.

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