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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…

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…

Madonna and Child with saints, with the Virgin sitting on an elevated throne with Christ child on her lap; below, at right, St Barbara and a monk, and at left a female saint (St Agatha?) with a dish resting on the pedestal, St Lawrence with his…

205 unnumbered leaves (last 2 blank) ; (8vo 17 cm)

This volume contains 202 wood engravings without text, the majority from the 'Dix livres de chirurgie' published in Paris, 1564: they have been carefully painted by hand in gold, silver, and…

(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 tied to a tree with her left arm raised; a landscape at her right; copy in reverse after Marcantonio
Etching and engraving
Height: Height: 64 millimetres
Width: Width: 38 millimetres
Inscription content: Collector's initials 'JB' in pen…

Sts Lucy, Cecilia, Barbara, Agatha and Agnes standing before a niche, holding their respective attributes; the Holy Spirit appears above them; in outline; after il Moretto. c.1827
Engraving
Height: Height: 229 millimetres
Width: Width: 165…

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…

The martyrdom of St Agatha, who is having her breast cut off by a man at the right, after Ippolito Costa. 1577
Engraving
Height: Height: 248 millimetres
Width: Width: 182
Inscription content: Lettered bottom right 'Diana incidebat Romae 1577' and…