The letter ‘F’ before the name ‘Sebastianus’ in the signature shows that this work was painted in or after the year 1531, when Sebastiano del Piombo (‘Sebastiano of the Seal’) became the bearer of the papal seal and adopted the honorific title associated with that role: frate (friar). The painting of the lady’s dress and hair are well preserved although the flesh areas are now damaged and have a greyish appearance.

oil on canvas
92.4 × 75.3 cm
Signed]]> https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/sebastiano-del-piombo-portrait-of-a-lady-with-the-attributes-of-saint-agatha
The Reverend William Holwell Carr
Holwell Carr Bequest, 1831
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/people/the-reverend-william-holwell-carr]]> 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 her breast with a pair of pincers. Background sprinkled with flowers and below a shield of arms chevronée; Inscription in legend within beaded borders, disrupted by the cross bar and shield of arms.
Reverse: high shaped pierced ridge
With wax impression.
Diameter: Diameter: 4 centimetres

Inscription position: obverse, legend
Inscription language: Latin
Inscription script: Black Letter
Inscription content: /SI.ADOLFI.DE.EPSTEI.A/RD.IN.ECCIA.TREU'
Inscription transliteration: /SI[GILLUM].ADOLFI.DE.EPSTEI[N].AR[CHI]D[IACO].IN.ECC[LES]IA[E].TRE[VERICA]U[RBS]
Inscription translation: Seal of Adolf of Epstein, archdeacon? in the curch of Trier. Siegel des Adolf von Epstein, Erzdiakon? der Kirche von Trier.
Inscription note: The Transliteration of "AR" as archdeacon is unsure. Orbis Latinus gives more options for the latin name of Trier, so their might be different possibilities to transliterate the last abbreviation.

Two wax impressions, one on paper and one gutta percha.

Identified as the Matryrdom of St. Agatha.

Tonnochy Slip Catalogue says that the arms of Eppstein are argent, three chevrons gules.]]> Europe: Germany: Rhineland-Palatinate (state): Trier]]> Europe: Germany]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1847-0802-7
Purchased from: Curtis
]]> Woodcut
Height: Height: 216 millimetres
Width: Width: 166 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered with the names of the individual saints on banderoles below the figures.
Forming a pair with E,8.175, the style corresponds closely with Wechtlin's scenes from the life of the Virgin and of Christ (Passavant III.331-2, II.53) but there is no printing on the versos and it is unclear whether they were designed as book illustrations or not. See Röttinger p.1 note 1; manuscript catalogue by Karl Parker (compiled in the 1920s) for a proposed sequel to Campbell Dodgson's 'Catalogue of Early German Woodcuts in the British Museum' [and British Library], vol.2, woodcuts by Wechtlin, no. 30.

Representation of: St Anne
Representation of: St Mary Magdalene
Representation of: Virgin Mary
Representation of: St Martha
Representation of: St Ursula
Representation of: St Catherine of Alexandria
Representation of: St Barbara
Representation of: St Margaret of Antioch
Representation of: St Dorothea
Representation of: St Agatha
Representation of: St Lucy
Representation of: St Agnes
Representation of: St Cecilia
Representation of: St Catherine of Siena
Representation of: St Otilia
Representation of: St Elizabeth of Hungary]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_E-8-176]]>
Height: Height: 1005 millimetres (Borderline) (Borderline)
Height: Height: 1061 millimetres (Sheet size) (Sheet size)
Width: Width: 704 millimetres (Borderline) (Borderline)
Width: Width: 704 millimetres (Sheet size) (Sheet size)

Inscription content: Publication line: 'Gedruckt zu Nürnberg, bey Hans Wolff Glaser.'

Representation of: St Lucy
Representation of: St Christina
Representation of: St Mary Magdalene
Representation of: St Elizabeth of Hungary
Representation of: St Apollonia
Representation of: St Ursula
Representation of: St Margaret of Antioch
Representation of: St Martha
Representation of: St Agatha
Representation of: St Agnes
Representation of: St Dorothea
Representation of: St Barbara
Representation of: St Catherine of Alexandria
Representation of: St Joseph
Representation of: Virgin Mary
Representation of: Jesus Christ
Representation of: St Anne
Representation of: St Joachim
Representation of: God]]> Europe: Germany: Bavaria (state): Mittelfranken (region): Nuremberg]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1930-0617-37
Purchased from: C G Boerner (sale Leipzig, 6/9 May 1930/637)
Previous owner/ex-collection: Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (Lugt 971)]]> Series: Series: The National Gallery of Pictures by the Great Masters]]> Etching and engraving
Height: Height: 271 millimetres
Width: Width: 214 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered in lower margin with title and production details: "Engraved by L. Stocks" and "From the original Picture by Sebastiano del Piombo in / The National Gallery / No.63" and "Jones & Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, London.".
After Sebastiano del Piombo's "Portrait of a lady with the attributes of Saint Agatha" of c. 1540 in the National Gallery (inv. NG 24), thought at the time to represent Giulia Gonzaga.]]> Print made by: Lumb Stocks
Published by: Jones & Co]]> Published in: London (England)
Europe: British Isles: England: London (England)]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-1214-66
Purchased from: Willis & Sotheran]]> Engraving
Height: Height: 223 millimetres
Width: Width: 159 millimetres
Not in IFF; from the same book as 1610,0208.4.

Representation of: God
Representation of: Apostles
Representation of: St Catherine of Alexandria
Representation of: St Barbara
Representation of: St Agatha
Representation of: St Laurence]]> French]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1910-0208-5
Donated by: Sydney Vacher
stamp printed in blue, on verso: 'TH.re PETIT INStt']]> Etching
Height: Height: 210 millimetres
Width: Width: 123 millimetres
Inscription content: Each scene lettered with name of publisher, date of feastday and title
From a set of 124 plates (a title, a frontispiece and 122 plates of 4 scenes each), see 1861,0713.511 for comment.

Representation of: St Agatha
Representation of: St Dorothea
Representation of: St Paul of Verdun
Representation of: St Romuald]]> Published by: Israël Henriet]]> Meaume 1860 / Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot (302-425)]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-0713-526
Purchased from: Charles Scarisbrick (From the Scarisbrick collection of Callot's work)
Purchased through: Christie's (14.v.1861/part of lot 475)
Purchased through: Colnaghi]]> Engraving
Diameter: Diameter: 43 millimetres (c., each roundel) (c., each roundel)
Height: Height: 171 millimetres (plate) (plate)
Width: Width: 120 millimetres
Inscription content: Signed below "Israhel V M".
Part of a series of designs for goldsmiths, consisting of eight engravings (L 445-452) with forty-eight circular scenes with religious subjects (each plate containing six roundels).

According to Lehrs, Meckenem copied the designs, at least in regards to the alignment of the roundels, after the Master ES.

The majority of the roundels have been cut out; an entire set of eight intact sheets is not known to exist.

Representation of: St Mary Magdalene
Representation of: St Rosalia
Representation of: St Apollonia
Representation of: St Agnes
Representation of: St Dorothea
Representation of: St Agatha]]> Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VI.260.153)
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (448.II)]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1925-0406-87Purchased from: Albertina]]> Series: Series: Ecclesiae Militantis Triumphi (Triomphes de l'Eglise Militante) (Triomphes de l'Eglise Militante)]]> Engraving
Height: Height: 201 millimetres
Width: Width: 136 millimetres
Inscription content: Titled in top margin: "Non svnt condignæ passiones hvivs temporis. Rom.VIII.". Lettered and numbered '18' in lower margin, with explanatory key in Latin.
This is one from a series of thirty-one plates (and title-page), for comment see 1863,0509.761.
Representation of: St Agatha
Representation of: Pope Fabian (St Fabian)
Representation of: Pope Cornelius (St Cornelius)
Representation of: St Tryphon
Representation of: St Cyprian of Carthage
Associated with: Decius
Associated with: Valerian
Associated with: Gallienus]]> Published by: Jean Leclerc IV]]> IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (227-258)
]]> Europe: France: Ile-de-France (region): Paris (France)]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1863-0509-779
Purchased from: Molini (& Green)]]> Engraving
Height: Height: 272 millimetres
Width: Width: 172 millimetres
Inscription content: Signed on plate with monogram: 'MP'. Numbered 'No.20' on plate. Lettered above image: 'Non sut condignae passiones huiu temporis ad ro. VIII' and below: 'Decio Valeriano et Galieno Impp.', and explanatory key.
Representation of: St Agatha
Representation of: Pope Fabian (St Fabian)
Representation of: Pope Cornelius (St Cornelius)
Representation of: St Tryphon
Representation of: St Abdon
Representation of: St Sennen]]> After: Niccolò Circignani]]> Europe: Italy: Lazio: Rome (province): Rome (city)
Topographic representation of: Colosseum
Europe: Italy: Lazio: Rome (province): Rome (city): Colosseum]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1869-0410-1576
Purchased from: José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca
Purchased through: Sotheby's (24-7.ii.1869/435)
Purchased through: Edward Daniell
Previous owner/ex-collection: José de Madrazo
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