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St. Lucas [print].

Accession number
PML 145506, plate 001
Creator
Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637, engraver.
Published
[Netherlands], [between 1579 and 1637]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Bound in v. 8 (PML 145506) as plate 1 in an extra-illustrated copy of The Holy Bible, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1814-1815 (see Harris Bible PML 145499-06).
Print mounted onto leaf measuring 331 x 233 mm, bound into volume.
Engraving in the style of Lucas van Leyden. Cf. New Hollstein.
Lettered with van Leyden's monogram ( "L") on the painter's palette on the wall at upper left; with the monogram of Crispijn van de Passe on the pedestal of the right column of the doorway in the background at right; captioned "St. Lucas" in bottom margin.
Engraving trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 197 x 132 mm; sheet: 206 x 136 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
St. Luke, wearing a pair of "pince-nez" spectacle, sits at left leaning on the table in front of him with his left elbow as he props up a book with the same hand; he dips a quill in an inkwell suspended from his waist with his right hand as his winged bull reclines on the floor at right partially under the table at center.
Classification
Department