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Object Type
Museum number: 1917,1208.546
Title: Object: S. Andreas Apostolus et Martyr
Description: The Martyrdom of St Andrew; St Andrew hung on the cross; the proconsul Egeas, on horseback at left, ordering the executioners to release him; below at right two men are unfastening his right leg, while a third on a ladder is freeing his right arm; a fourth man , lower down at left is loosening the rope round the Apostle's waist; two women at right looking at Egeas, one of them possibly Egea's wife Maximillia who was converted to Christianity by the Saint; some figures in lower left background watching the execution; above on the left three angels hovering with a crown of laurel and the martyr's palm; after Peter Paul Rubens. Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Alexander Voet II; After: Peter Paul Rubens; Published by: Alexander Voet II
School/style
Production date: 1655-1661
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 580 millimetres; Width: 469 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: With variations after the painting by Rubens in Real Hospital de Andres de los Flamencos, Madrid (Rooses 389); for a drawing by Rubens see 1898.0328.2.
Bibliographic references: Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (95.5); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (6); Corpus Rubenianum VIII / Saints (62b) (copy 4)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.546

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