Lucia comtempto mundo rebusq[ue] caducis, . calestes tota mente sitiuit opes.
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1591
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3115459.20
Summary
Single plate engraving of Saint Lucy of Syracuse,by her tomb, holding book and palm frond, with sword and clasped book, with eyes on upper cover (St. Lucy, patron saint of eyes), in rear left St. Lucy having eyes put out.
Bibliographic description
1 sheet (19 cm x 13 cm) . 4to.. Pasted to verso of plate 14 of 'Kunstbüchlein' (1596).. Binding: Seventeenth-century full green paper over boards; tiny fragments of earlier printed waste visible (liturgical music?).