2-720-281 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'They presented him with gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh', mid-late 19th century. Biblical scene, from Matthew 2: 11: 'And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh'. The Nativity: the Magi bring gifts to the Christ-child, on the lap of his mother Mary. Engraving after 'Adoration of the Magi', a painting of 1633 by Nicolas Poussin, in the Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany.