Adoration of the Shepherds - Public domain scan / engraving

after a painting by Jacob Jordaens, history and portrait painter, draughtsman, watercolorist, and engraver, 1593-1678 (artist notes)
Dutch (artist nationality)
engraver (artist role)
Jordaens, Jacob, 1593-1678 (original artist)
Recto: bottom center: (in Latin) Nectare, et ambrosia ciues qui Pascit olÿmpi / Pastorum vili. Pascitur ecce cibo. / Quem canit heroâ Diuorum Voce Senatus, / Hunc canit en gracili rustica musa Sono. ; l. l.: Iac: Iordaens pinxit. ; l. r.: Mariuus Sculpsit. No. 4. ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil) Clark Oct 1937 / 14 50 ; l. l.: (in pencil) C575/542 (inscription)
Engraving. (medium)
Fine condition. One dark brown stain in margin at lower left. Light adhesive tape stains on verso at all four corners and at bottom center edge, but they do not bleed through to the recto. (condition)
The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California, 9 Oct. 1937. (provenance)
Duct flute (instrument)
17th century (century)
Miscellaneous Art (large) (miller category)

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.