S. Augustinus

S. Augustinus

"St Augustine, half-length, seated at a table and writing, his mitre on the table, his staff behind him leaning against a bookshelf, a candle-holder in the shape of a young boy in right foreground; after Pieter de Jode"
Engraving

Shows a pair of barber-surgeon scissors on the wall in the back. Combined with lettering, hints at S Augustine's medical theosophy and work

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 ... / ... Episcopatus sui anno 40.".

Print made by: Egbert van Panderen (Dutch)
After: Pieter de Jode I

British Museum
acquired 1867
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1867-1012-380

c. 1596-1637

A similar plate is described by Hollstein under a series of the four fathers of the church (Hollstein 34-37). For a similar impression, but smaller and in reverse see F,1.76.

Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (undescribed)
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (undescribed)