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Use of a surgical tool rather than a blacksmithing tongs

Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Plate: 3 5/8 x 2 11/16 inches (9.2 x 6.8 cm) Sheet: 3 3/4 x 2 13/16 inches (9.5 x 7.2 cm)

23,2 x 16 cm

"From a large number of initials cut from choir-books, attributed to the miniaturist active in Lombardy in the decades around and after 1500, some are signed B. F. (or B.). The identification of the artist is controversial. Wescher would like to…

Medium
Brown ink, brown and gray wash, and black chalk over graphite on cream antique laid paper (?), partial framing line in brown ink, mounted overall to cream antique laid paper with gold leaf remnants from a previous mount; verso: red chalk and…

Saint Agatha holds a pair of pincers, the martyr's palm, and the Bible. In the background, a burning pyre. Saint Agatha suffered martyrdom by having her breasts torn off with pincers
color lithograph
Sant'Agata. Vergine e martire. On verso, prayer…

hot-pokers are used to torture saint agatha

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…

Seal-matrix for Adolf von Epstein, Archdeacon of Trier; bronze; circular.
Obverse: Female figure standing, facing, wearing a long dress and her hands above her head grasping a cross-bar resting on side posts. On either side an executioner seizing…

The name of God in Hebraic characters, surrounded by the Apostles, and with other Christian saints standing below; illustration to an unidentified book, page 201 or 203, with letterpress text printed in red and black on verso
Engraving
Height:…

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…