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St Agatha and executioner; the bare-breasted saint, her hands tied above her head to a column; behind her to the left a male figure holding an instrument of torture; after Parmigianino. 1809
Height: Height: 169 millimetres
Width: Width: 119…

Sixteen female saints; half-length figures with their respective attributes, arranged in four rows.
Woodcut
Height: Height: 216 millimetres
Width: Width: 166 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered with the names of the individual saints on…

"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;…

Six female saints; St Mary Magdalene, St Rosalia, St Apollonia, St Agnes, St Dorothy, St Agatha; six roundels aligned in three rows; sheet four of the series; second state
Engraving
Diameter: Diameter: 43 millimetres (c., each roundel) (c., each…

Four oval scenes, each related to religious events or saints celebrated in February; from left to right and top to bottom, a soldier shearing the breast of a young female saint tied to a pillar (St Agatha's Day); a man armed with a brand and burning…

Plate 20: St Agatha and an angel; after Guercino. St Agatha, standing on the left, clutches her mutilated breasts while on the right an angel approaches her with an ointment jar. 1706
Etching and engraving
Height: Height: 358 millimetres
Width:…

Plate 18: Martyrdom scenes with St Agatha being tied to a pillar in foreground, her sheared breasts lying in front of her, the Popes Fabian and Cornelius being beheaded in left background, St Tryphon hung from a tree and beaten in left background,…

(For description and further comment, see impression of BM Sat. 8051: 1935,0522.1.176)
Mezzotint
Height: Height: 352 millimetres
Width: Width: 248 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered below the image with the title, four lines of verse in…

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…

Church martyrs, with in the foreground St Agatha, tied to a stake and having her breasts cut by an executioner; beyond, at right, St Tryphon, hanging upside down from a tree, and Sts Fabian and Cornelius being beheaded; at left, St Abdon and Sennen…