St Agatha
Dublin Core
Title
St Agatha
Subject
Series: Series: Piccoli Santi (Small Saints) (Small Saints)
Description
St Agatha standing between two trees, her left arm raised and tied to a third tree in the middle; copy in reverse after Marcantonio
Engraving
Height: Height: 87 millimetres
Width: Width: 55 millimetres
Inscription content: Handwritten inscription on the verso, in pencil, mentioning a sale (177?, no.15-4) at which the print was probably sold
NOTE: the whole breasts where in another edition the breasts are removed
"The artist did not fully understand Marcantonio’s print and in his engraving omitted to emphasize St Agatha’s cut breasts."
Engraving
Height: Height: 87 millimetres
Width: Width: 55 millimetres
Inscription content: Handwritten inscription on the verso, in pencil, mentioning a sale (177?, no.15-4) at which the print was probably sold
NOTE: the whole breasts where in another edition the breasts are removed
"The artist did not fully understand Marcantonio’s print and in his engraving omitted to emphasize St Agatha’s cut breasts."
Creator
After: Marcantonio
Source
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIV.142.170)
Delaborde 1888 / Marc-Antoine Raimondi: Etude Historique et Critique suivie d'un catalogue raisonné des oeuvres du maitre (128.72)
Delaborde 1888 / Marc-Antoine Raimondi: Etude Historique et Critique suivie d'un catalogue raisonné des oeuvres du maitre (128.72)
Date
1500-1527
Contributor
British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_H-1-124
Bequeathed by: Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (with Philipe's oval blindstamp with the initials CMC)
Previous owner/ex-collection: Jonathan Blackburne (with Blackburne’s annotation on verso in pencil ‘[...] sale – 17[...] / N°. 15 – 4’)
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_H-1-124
Bequeathed by: Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (with Philipe's oval blindstamp with the initials CMC)
Previous owner/ex-collection: Jonathan Blackburne (with Blackburne’s annotation on verso in pencil ‘[...] sale – 17[...] / N°. 15 – 4’)
Collection
Citation
After: Marcantonio, “St Agatha,” European Mastectomy, accessed May 24, 2026, https://european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/items/show/39.