Santa Veronica.
B.T.A.
[n.d., c.1630.]
Rare woodcut. Sheet: 180 x 130mm (7¼ x 5¼''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Saint Veronica, a woman of Jerusalem who offered her veil to Jesus to mop his brow while carrying the cross. When he returned the veil to Veronica his face had miraculously been impressed upon it. A woodcut by the monogrammist BTA, probably for a Carmelite order in Venice in the first half of the 16th century.
[Ref: 49645] £240.00
[n.d., c.1630.]
Rare woodcut. Sheet: 180 x 130mm (7¼ x 5¼''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Saint Veronica, a woman of Jerusalem who offered her veil to Jesus to mop his brow while carrying the cross. When he returned the veil to Veronica his face had miraculously been impressed upon it. A woodcut by the monogrammist BTA, probably for a Carmelite order in Venice in the first half of the 16th century.
[Ref: 49645] £240.00