Saintly Depictions and Iconography

Prints of early church fathers and saints, focusing on their stories of martyrdom and devotion, highlighted by traditional settings and symbols.

The holy apostolic father Polycarp of Smyrna writes in a book and looks at the angel sitting next to him with a burning torch and bishop's mitre. Polycarp is standing on a pedestal. On the obverse the scene in which he is stabbed to death at the stake because the fire will not consume him. Print marked top center: II: Part Pag. 150., St. Polycarp of Smyrna, Apostolic Father Polycarp Bishop of Smyrna, There to Burn, in't Fire Set, and Pierced , print maker: Jan Luyken, (mentioned on object), print maker: Zacharias Chatelain (II), (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jan Goeree, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1698, paper, etching, engraving, h 274 mm × w 170 mm
The holy apostolic father Polycarp of Smyrna writes in a book and looks at the angel sitting next to him with a burning torch and bishop's mitre. Polycarp is standing on a pedestal. On the obverse the scene in which he is stabbed to death at the stake because the fire will not consume him. Print marked top center: II: Part Pag. 150., St. Polycarp of Smyrna, Apostolic Father Polycarp Bishop of Smyrna, There to Burn, in't Fire Set, and Pierced , print maker: Jan Luyken, (mentioned on object), print maker: Zacharias Chatelain (II), (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jan Goeree, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1698, paper, etching, engraving, h 274 mm × w 170 mm