[Francis Xavier writing a letter to St. Ignatius from India]

[Barbé, Jean-Baptiste 1578-1649 (attribued to)]

[Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 (possibly)]

[Galle, Cornelis, 1576-1650]

Jesuits

[Galle, Cornelis, 1576-1650 (possibly engraver)]

print

Edition Statement [1ed.]

[Cornelis Galle (possibly)]

(Rome]

[1609]

1 print : ecthing and engraving ; plate mark 148 x 97 mm. on sheet 194 x 138 mm.

paper

Latin

Italy

In lower margin: "Ex lrĩs B.Xauerÿ ad Ignatium ex India scriptis ... Vale Tuus minimus filius longiʃsimeqƷ exulans. FRANC.XAVERIVS.". Numbered, in the right corner: "59".

Pr. 60 of: [Barbé, Jean-Baptiste 1578-1649 (attribued to)], VITA BEATI P. IGNATII LOIOLÆ SOCIETATIS IESV FVNDATORIS

Print of "VITA BEATI P. IGNATII LOIOLÆ SOCIETATIS IESV FVNDATORIS." edited in Rome in 1609. According to John W. O' Malley, print engraved by Jean Baptiste Barbé, according to Hollstein, engraved by Cornelis Galle. Both of authors suggests Peter Paul Rubens as inventor.

Good

Francis Xavier, Saint, 1506-1552

Saints

Índia

Biblioteca Angelica

Fondo Antico

S.9.55,59

Link to mother card

S.9.55,frontispiece,before_1,1-79

O'Malley, John W. and James P. M. Walsh, S.J., Constructing a Saint Through Images - The 1609 Illustrated Biography of Ignatius of Loyola, Philadelphia, Saint Joseph's University Press, 2008; Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings engravings and woodcuts c