Accession number
PML 145850.74
Published
Antuerpiae : Apud Viduam Ioannis Cnobbari, 1646.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Broadside illustrated with a central engraving measuring 216 x 177 mm, showing a landscape with angels offering their guidance and protection to mortal men and women; with a staircase leading to the kingdom of Heaven at left, and an angel with a torch leading a man towards the base of the steps in the foreground at center. Signed at lower right "Aegidius Rucholle sculpsit."
Mounted as item 74 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).
Library's copy closely trimmed.
Broadside illustrated with a central engraving measuring 216 x 177 mm, showing a landscape with angels offering their guidance and protection to mortal men and women; with a staircase leading to the kingdom of Heaven at left, and an angel with a torch leading a man towards the base of the steps in the foreground at center. Signed at lower right "Aegidius Rucholle sculpsit."
Mounted as item 74 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).
Library's copy closely trimmed.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (engraving) ; 52 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
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