Xylography "The Magi visited
by the angels"
by Johanes Sadeler, the elder
(Netherlands, 16th c.)
Magos Foundation Collection
after Gerard van Groeningen’s work, published by Gerard de Jode in 1574. Interior view of a room with one of the magi sleeping on the left, an angel standing beside his bed addressing him, soldiers seated against the columns on the left, two other rooms with the remaining magi sleeping, with angels speaking to them in the background. Letters in Latin on lower part “Angelus a Somnis Alia Disceregno Terra, Iussit, ad Herodis NEC Remeare Domum. Math.2.”