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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…

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

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:…

1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour
Lettering
La Lune. ... Portrait authentique de Sallot dit casque de fer. D'apres une photographie communiquée par M. Francal, notre correspondant à Foix. And. Gill. Relief Marchandeux.
Lettering note
The…

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…

"Together with two other female saints, these panels were originally stacked in two groups of three, one above the other, to form the piers flanking the main panels of an altarpiece. By this date Giovanni di Paolo’s work must have begun to seem out…

"Martyred under Emperor Decius (ruled 249–51 A.D.), Saint Reparata was a patron saint of Florence, for whom its cathedral was named. This exquisitely painted panel is from the high altarpiece of the cathedral (the main panels are now in the Uffizi ,…

woodcut

Styling is reminiscent of an illustration of St Eufrasia in Giunta, La rapresentatione di santa Eufrasia composta per messer Castellano Castellani, 1558; illustrations for a play rather than for a meditational work.

Material
panel
Measurements
120 x 45 cm.
Description
Full view
Formerly in the Castello di Vincigliata, Florence and then Baron Alberto Fassini collection, Rome (after 1930).
Probably part of the same polyptych as Saint Nicholas of Bari and…