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Nicolas Visscher I

Jan van der Straet (known as Stradanus)

The Arrest of St. Paul, from the series Acta Apostolorum (Acts of the Apostles)

published c. 1643–46

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  • Artist attributed to the Workshop of Nicolas Visscher I (Dutch, 1618–1679)
    after Jan van der Straet (known as Stradanus) (Flemish, 1523–1605)
  • Title The Arrest of St. Paul, from the series Acta Apostolorum (Acts of the Apostles)
  • Date published c. 1643–46
  • Medium Engraving
  • Dimensions unframed | 8 7/8 x 11 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Professor and Mrs. Thomas Hall, 1986
  • Object number WU 1986.24.45

Colonizing the Past: Constructing Race in Ancient Greece and Rome
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 08/30/2021 - 12/27/2021

Teaching Gallery exhibition
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 10/01/2003 - 12/07/2003

1986
Joan Hall

Inscription INSCRIPTIONS, LC in plate: "Johan Stradanus inventor Visscher excudebat"; LL: "Nobile cum templum Salomonis Paulus Ceperat et Corripit hunc Iudea manus rabidoq tumultu Conclamat recis esse reum tum carcere claude"

Nobile cum templum Salomonis Paulus adire / Ceperat et veteris solemnia rddere legis, Corripit hunc Iudea manus rabidoq, tumultu / Conclamat necis eße reum tum carcere claudi. Acto .21.31.

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