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Erin Corr

Erin Corr (1803 – August 10, 1862[1]) was an Irish engraver, who was born in Brussels of Irish descent. He spent 10 years engraving the copper-plate for Rubens's Descent from the Cross. In 1833, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician. He was among the illustrators and engravers who worked on Charles Morren's horticultural review, La Belgique Horticole.[2]

He is the brother of the Belgian painter Isabelle Marie Françoise (Fanny) Geefs-Corr (1807–1883).

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  Elevation of the Cross
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  Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn, Vilnius
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  Petro Paulo Rubens
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  Het Steen, Antwerp

1. ^ Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. p. 690.
2. ^ Catalogue listing for La Belgique horticole 1-15. Royal Library of Belgium. 1866.

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.