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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:…

pages 18-37 : illustrations ; 24 cm
At head of title: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, July, 1887

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…

groups of sketches and drawings from Piranesi (f.3-17), studies for works entitled 'Landscape with Ruins', 'Ecstasy of St Agatha', 'Fiery Kind' (f.50-60?), 'Flagellation', drawings from the Castello Sforzesco, studies for a series of works for the…

St Agatha, standing full-length, heads turned in profile to left, holding a pair of shears with her breast
Engraving
Height: Height: 70 millimetres
Width: Width: 47 millimetres
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Lettered with a…

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…

St Agatha; kneeling to left in front of a prison, with one severed breast, praying to a vision of St Peter standing blessing her; behind to left she is roasted alive on hot coals; within an oval frame and with a vertical panel of ornamental…

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,…

18th century engraving with frame from First French Empire (1804–1814). Discovered at Luxeuil. Pellerin (of Epinal) had near identical wood block in his possession, which he was using c. 1814. SA: Agatha of Sicily, Christian saint, d. c.…