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: Dympna Hyberniae Regis Filia

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 Dymphna prays as her confessor Father Gereburnus tries to protect her from her father's servants. In the background, Dymphna's father kills her. The names of the artist responsible for the design, Maarten De Vos, and the engraver, Adriaen Collaert, are at the lower right.

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