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Saint Agatha holds a pair of pincers, the martyr's palm, and the Bible. In the background, a burning pyre. Saint Agatha suffered martyrdom by having her breasts torn off with pincers
color lithograph
Sant'Agata. Vergine e martire. On verso, prayer…

Overall (confirmed): 5 3/8 × 3 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (13.7 × 8.9 × 7.9 cm)

"This small, half-length statuette depicts the early Christian saint Agatha gazing heavenward with her hands bound behind her back. According to legend, the Sicilian…

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…

St Agatha standing between two trees, her right arm raised and tied to a third tree in the middle, her breasts have been cut off
Engraving
Height: Height: 83 millimetres
Width: Width: 49 millimetres
Inscription content: Signed on plate with a…

1 print : photogravure, printed in colours ; image 12.6 x 7.7 cm; S. Agata, verg. e mart. Lunedi 5 Febbraio; On verso, biography of the saint and prayer in Italian with imprimatur dated Milan 1898

Height: Height: 453 millimetres (trimmed) (trimmed)
Width: Width: 317 millimetres

Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Lettered in Latin in lower margin, in a cartouche: "S. AVGVSTINVS / Episcopus Hiponensis, ac Doctor Eccl.æ ... /…

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…

Watercolour drawing of a recurrent cancerous ulcer invading the left breast of a woman aged 49 years. The recurrent growth was of four years' duration. It began to ulcerate two years before the drawing was made. From an Out-Patient.

MS Royal 2 B VII, fol. 242r.

John Bull is crying: "Murder! if you get it down it will ruin my constitution", the paper that is being forced down his throat is entitled: "Catholic Emancipation". Wellington says: "Hold - him fast - Bob - I'll soon make him swallow it - there it…