St Agatha

St Agatha

Object: Object: Non sunt condignae...
Series: Series: Ecclesiae Militantis Triumphi (Triomphes de l'Eglise Militante) (Triomphes de l'Eglise Militante)

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, Abdon and Senna attacked by lions in central background; letters A-D within composition indicating different scenes
Engraving
Height: Height: 201 millimetres
Width: Width: 136 millimetres
Inscription content: Titled in top margin: "Non svnt condignæ passiones hvivs temporis. Rom.VIII.". Lettered and numbered '18' in lower margin, with explanatory key in Latin.
This is one from a series of thirty-one plates (and title-page), for comment see 1863,0509.761.
Representation of: St Agatha
Representation of: Pope Fabian (St Fabian)
Representation of: Pope Cornelius (St Cornelius)
Representation of: St Tryphon
Representation of: St Cyprian of Carthage
Associated with: Decius
Associated with: Valerian
Associated with: Gallienus

Print made by: Jan van Haelbeck
Published by: Jean Leclerc IV

Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (undescribed)
IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (227-258)

Published in: Paris (France)
Europe: France: Ile-de-France (region): Paris (France)

1600-20

British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1863-0509-779
Purchased from: Molini (& Green)