A woman personifying religion stands leaning on a cross and on top of a skeleton while holding up a bible. Etching by Crispin de Passe.

  • Passe, Crispijn van de, -1670.
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A woman personifying religion stands leaning on a cross and on top of a skeleton while holding up a bible. Etching by Crispin de Passe. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Place of publication not identified] : Coloniæ

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1 print : etching ; image 23.7 x 19.9 cm

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Religionis non fictæ sed vere christianæ pictura versibus expressa.

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Tarnya Cooper, Refashioning death: vanitas and memento mori prints from northern Europe 1514-c.1640 (exhibition catalogue, University College London), London 1997, no. 38
Hollstein no. 628

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Wellcome Collection 34603i

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