Author: Gerrit de Broen II (1692-1774) after Ottmar Elliger II (1666-1732)
Title: [Antique title page, 1721] De mensch in Christus of het geestelyk leven der gelovigen, published 1721, 1 p.
Description: Allegorical frontispiece representing Faith (?) with an opened book in the sky and men and women with a child looking at the personification. In the background, a representation of a fortification with the Mystic Lamb.Titled below on a cartouche. Further below, signed and dated with the address of the publisher: t' Amsterdam, by JACOBUS BORSTIUS, Boekverkoper 1721 / Elliger delin. Broen sch.. Etching and engraving on paper, trimmed within margins; total: 153 x 92 mm; in very good condition.

Keywords: Allegories|Amsterdam|Baby|Bible|Book illustrations|Frontispiece|Iconography|Religion|Theology|Women