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Maker: 
Wierix, Hieronymus
Medium: 
engraving
Tradition: 
Catholic
Repository: 

The British Museum

Accession #: 
1859,0709.3031.
Date: 
before 1619 CE
ID: 
19110
Keywords: 
Engraving, Nativity, Christ Child, Virgin Mary

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