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The defenders of the Eucharist [print].

Accession number
PML 145850.60
Published
[Antwerp?] : Gaspar Huberti, [16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
After the painting by Rubens.
Lettered below with four lines of Latin in two columns: Doctorum aethereo ... crede fide.
Mounted as item 60 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 277 x 191 mm; plate mark: 283 x 195; sheet: 307 x 206 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows saints and fathers of the early church standing beneath a decorative swag with cupids with the dove of the Holy Spirit directly above them; included, from left to right, are: Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Clare (bearing a monstrance), Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Norbert, and Saint Jerome (in cardinal's robes).
Classification
Department