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The complete series of eight plates designed by Maerten van Heemskerck and engraved by Muller (New Hollstein 313-320) The verses are by Hadrianus Junius. A related drawing in Frankfurt (inv. 813). 1. Blessed are the poor in spirit. Job receiving the ill news of his misfortunes; Job sits in a chair and exclaims while his wife stands behind him clasping her hands; four other figures stand nearby;2. Blessed are the meek. Miriam and Aaron disputing with Moses about his Ethiopian? (Cushite) wife [Numbers 12:1-15]; the four figures stand before a tent; beyond the Lord God appearing in a tent and summoning Miriam and Aaron. 3.Christ is eating at the table in the home of Simon the Pharisee. Mary Magdalene kneels on the ground, anoints his feet and dries them with her hair.4. Presentation of Jezus in the temple. 5. Blessed are the merciful. Tobit burying the dead, clothing the naked and feeding the hungry; In the foreground Tobit lowers a dead body by the shoulders into a grave; to the left he stands at a doorway with a queue of beggars; Blessed are the pure in heart. The Annunciation; the Archangel Gabriel holding a branch appears before the Virgin kneeling before her bed; in the foreground is a vase of lilies. 7.Blessed are the peacemakers. Abigail soothing David [1 Samuel 25:23-35]; Abigail kneels with baskets of food before her and confronts David in his armour on horseback with his soldiers; 8.Blessed are they who are persecuted. The stoning of St Stephen; on the outskirts of a fortified city three men raise their arms to pelt the kneeling saint with rocks; Publishers address of Claes Jansz. Visscher ( 1587-1652)