![[Saint Catherine.]](jpegs/54254.jpg)
[Saint Catherine.] From a Picture in the Collection of Robert Wigram Esq.r M. P. To whom this Plate is dedicated by his obedient Servant C. Turner.
Painted by Correggio. Engraved by Charles Turner.
London, Published Jan.y 18. 1810, by C. Turner No. 50, Warren Street,] Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 560 x 405mm (22 x 16"), with large margins. Publisher's inscription weakly inked; evidence of a printer's patch over armorial.
Saint Catherine holding a broken wheel, crowned with a wreath by a cherub. The emperor Maxentius condemned the Christian virgin to death on a spiked breaking wheel but, at her touch, it shattered. She was then beheaded and a milk-like substance flowed instead of blood.
Whiman 704, i of ii.
[Ref: 54254] £260.00
London, Published Jan.y 18. 1810, by C. Turner No. 50, Warren Street,] Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint. 560 x 405mm (22 x 16"), with large margins. Publisher's inscription weakly inked; evidence of a printer's patch over armorial.
Saint Catherine holding a broken wheel, crowned with a wreath by a cherub. The emperor Maxentius condemned the Christian virgin to death on a spiked breaking wheel but, at her touch, it shattered. She was then beheaded and a milk-like substance flowed instead of blood.
Whiman 704, i of ii.
[Ref: 54254] £260.00