Saint Laurence of Rome receives money for alms from Saint Sixtus. Engraving by E.E. Schäffer after J. Tunner after Fra Angelico.

London : Engraved for the Arundel Society, 1865 ([Germany?] : H. Felsing imp.t)

1 print : engraving ; platemark 40.5 x 29.8 cm

St. Sixtus giving money to St. Laurence for alms. Fra Angelico da Fiesole pinx. Tunner del. E.E. Schäffer sculp.

Frederic W. Maynard,·A descriptive notice of the drawings and publications of the Arundel Society arranged in the order of their issue, London: J.B. Nichols and Sons, 1869, p. 36 ("I. St. Sixtus giving money to St. Laurence for alms. An engraving by Herr Schaffer, from a drawing by M. Kupelwieser, in continuation of the series of frescoes by Fra Angelico in the Chapel of Nicholas V. in the Vatican. ... Sixtus, having refused to deliver to the Roman prefect Decius the treasures of the church, is about to be led to prison. He is represented with three attendants within the cloister of a church committing a purse to St. Laurence. Without are two soldiers knocking at the door.")

Wellcome Collection 2267443i