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Engraving of the Adoration of the Shepherds with an angel above, oxen, the infant Christ in a manger, and kneeling shepherds.

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An engraved composition showing the Nativity, with the infant Christ lying in a manger at center while a seated woman tends him beside a pair of oxen. An angel descends from the upper left above a group of muscular shepherds who kneel and gesture toward the child, and an older bearded man in a hooded robe stands at the left.

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