Hierographia - Romanorum Pontifices

Object summary

Title: Hierographia - Romanorum Pontifices
Object ID: AF-DI-1661
Date made: 1602
Place made: Czech Republic, Praha, Hlavní Mesto, Prague
Engraver: Sadeler, Aegidius, II
Object type: Engraving
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
On view: No

Description

Uncolored engraving depicting six medals or seals, with caption text in Latin. Top right medal or seal (no. XXIII) features a dolphin entwined about a crocodile, apparently biting it at the top of the neck.

Plate 13 or 14 (14 is printed, and crossed out in ink with 13 handwritten above; ink looks about contemporary with book) of the book "Symbola varia Diversorum Principum Sacrossane. Ecclesiae Et Sacre Imperij Romani," by Jacobus Typotius (1602). With text in Latin on verso.