[Beheading of Saint John the Great]

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Title: [Beheading of Saint John the Great]
Engraver: [Sadeler, Johann, 1550-1600]
Inventor: Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603
Printer/Publisher: [Sadeler]
Medium: print
Name of publisher: [Sadeler]
Date of publication: [1580]
Physical description: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 246 x 202 mm. on sheet 260 x 216 mm.
Materials: paper
Language: Latin
Country: Germany
Inscriptions: In margin: "Herodes auten occidit … Petrum, actu 12."; "J. sadeler fecit et excud:"; in image, lower right: "M. DE VOS INVOR.".
Annotations: Pr. [3] of: [Sadeler, Johann, 1550-1600], [Martyrdom of the followers of Christ].
Collectors' marks: L.4559
Curatorial Comment: Preparatory drawing in a French private collection.
Conservation: good
Personal Name: James, the Greater, saint
Topical Term: apostles
Beheading
martyrdom
Location: Biblioteca Casanatense
: Fondo Stampe e Disegni
: 20.A.III.101/100
Series: Link to mother card
Series' component: 20.A.III.101/98-101;103
Album: Link to album description
Album's component: 20.A.III.101
Bibliography: F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, Vol. XLIV, Maarten de Vos, Rotterdam, 1996, p. 191, no. 885; F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, Vol. XXI, Aegidius Sadel
Link: Collectors' marks url

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