St Chariton the Confessor
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Catalog: MZ S.A
Code: A424
Author:
Sadeler Raphael (1560-1632)
Subject:
Religious
Technique:
Engraving
Size:
mm 200x170 (etching) mm 365x305 (ext. frame)
Code: A424
Raphael Sadeler (1560-1632), from a drawing by Maarten de Vos
St Chariton the Confessor
"Iconius CHARITON vinclis et carcere missus Se nemorum properat claudere carceribus.
Dura filex nectar sitienti dulce propinat; Nama solent Diuum saxa mouere preces."
Original etching on coeval copper plate. From:
SOLITUDO SIVE VITAE PATRUM EREMICOLARUM Per antiquissimum Patrem D. Hieronimum eorundem primarium olim conscripta: iam vero primum aeneis laminis idà ioannis et Raphael Sadeler frairù imprensis scampt: et excusa.
This etching, datable on 1580, represents St Chariton the Confessor, while reading the Bible on his cave.
Assembled in beautiful artisanal frame.
