LEONARDUS (nr. 11 from the serie ORACULUM ANACHORETICUM)

Beschrijving

Leonardus on the right under a tree reading from the Bible. Towards the left a chapel with Mary and Child. A friar digging a whole in the ground and further a landscape. Late impression. Inscribed on the bottom left: ‘cu privilegio / Su Ponti. et Cae’; ‘Joa. Sadeler /sculpsit et exc.’; towards the right: ‘Martin de Vos figur.’; lettered on the bottom: ‘Nobilio hic ille est LEONARDUS; sustulit olim / De sacris puerum Rex Clodoueus aquis. / Discipulos, edemq[ue]’ habuit; Pastorq[ue] virorum / Ne fieret, socius maluit esse feris.’ Hollstein de Vos, 1061