The Adoration of the shepherds.

Engraving, 30,2 x 22,8 cm, laid paper without watermark, signed at lower left (sm. repairs at upper corners, lower right corner and edges).

Very rare print of The Adoration set before a classical edifice with baluster columns. Joseph sleeps in the foreground, the Virgin kneels at right and the Christ Child raises himself on one hand. The print was originally monogrammed in the cartouche above the central portal, but has been scraped off. A new signature "I.V. Vicht f[ecit]" had been added with pen and ink, or in the plate. Only a handful of prints are known by the anonymous engraver who signed with the monogram HFE. He often made reproductive engravings with classical subjects after works by the Bolognese painter Asperini (c. 1474 – 1552).
Ref. Bartsch XV.461.1.