Book Title: Solitudo, sive, Vitae patrum eremicolarum : per antiquissimu[m] Patrem D. Hieronimu[m] eorundem primarium olim conscripta / iam verò primu*m æneis laminis, idq*[ue] Ioannis et Raphael Sadeler, fratru[m] impensis scalpt. & excusa

Author: Sadeler, Jan, 1550-1600

Image Title: Saint Euphraxia Romana

Description: This image comes from “Solitudo sive vitae Foeminarum Anachoritarum,” by Adriaen and Joan Collaert and Cornelius Galle, bound with “Solitudo, sive, Vitae patrum eremicolarum”. Saint Euphraxia, also called Eupraxia or Euphrasia, prays (right), as a demon tries to throw a woman in a well (background). At left, Euphraxia prays after she injures her foot while chopping wood. The name of the artist responsible for the design, Maarten De Vos, is at the lower left and and the name of the engraver, Adriaen Collaert, is at the lower right.

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