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Messing penning. Voorzijde: gekroond wapenschild, geflankeerd door twee leeuwen boven cartouche met opschrift. Keerzijde: klos, haspel, weversspoel en platte schaar onder kroon binnen omschrift

Materialbrass (alloy)
Techniquecasting /…

Plate 63: Portrait of a lady traditionally identified as Giulia Gonzaga, half-length, turned to right; after Sebastiano del Piombo. c.1836
Etching and engraving
Height: Height: 271 millimetres
Width: Width: 214 millimetres
Inscription content:…

The lady in the picture is shown with the attributes of Saint Agatha, the third-century Sicilian martyr who was reported to have been tortured for rejecting the marriage proposal of the Roman governor. A dish with Agatha’s severed breasts and the…

"Pieta' with crucified female martyrs; the Pieta' at centre; smaller scenes surrounding it: top centre: God the Father with angels distributing crowns; bottom centre: Christ leading a group of female Saints, carrying a cross over their shoulders;…

MS Royal 2 B VII, fol. 242r.

The martyr tied to a column, two men on either side shearing her breasts, an angel holding a laurel above her in top left corner
Engraving
Height: Height: 155 millimetres
Width: Width: 98 millimetres
Inscription content: Signed in lower left…

1 print : photogravure, printed in colours ; image 12.6 x 7.7 cm; S. Agata, verg. e mart. Lunedi 5 Febbraio; On verso, biography of the saint and prayer in Italian with imprimatur dated Milan 1898

St Agatha standing between two trees, her right arm raised and tied to a third tree in the middle, her breasts have been cut off
Engraving
Height: Height: 83 millimetres
Width: Width: 49 millimetres
Inscription content: Signed on plate with a…

St Agatha tied to a tree with her left arm raised; a landscape at her right; copy in reverse after Marcantonio
Etching and engraving
Height: Height: 64 millimetres
Width: Width: 38 millimetres
Inscription content: Collector's initials 'JB' in pen…

Overall (confirmed): 5 3/8 × 3 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (13.7 × 8.9 × 7.9 cm)

"This small, half-length statuette depicts the early Christian saint Agatha gazing heavenward with her hands bound behind her back. According to legend, the Sicilian…