Author: Sadeler, Raphael I (1560-1632) and Sadeler, Johannes I (1550-1600), after Vos, Maarten de (1532-1603)
Title: [Antique landscape print, ca 1600] EPHAESTIO (nr. 3 from the serie ORACULUM ANACHORETICUM), published ca 1600.
Description: Ephestius running after a couple who left him a small bag with coins. Late impression. Inscribed on the bottom left on a rock 'Vos fig.'; on the bottom right: 'cu privil Sum. Pontifici / Joa Sadeler fecit et excu.'; lettered on the bottom: 'Melana in tecto, quod EPHAESTIO pauper habebat,/ Fraude pia loculos condidit; is repeit. / Currit, et exclamat: cape numos; illa recusat. Tum senior. non vis ego. dentur aquis' Hollstein de Vos, 1053 Engraving on paper; broad margins; platemark: 167 x 208 mm; total: 218 x 272 mm. The outline of the heremit, of the small bag and of the couple on the right have been marked with an ink-free needle or pen. PB01SS(Ephestius)

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