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Bottom left "Io. Strada. Inven. Visscher excut.", then Latin inscription of two lines on two columns and number "21" from the series of 34 "Acta Apostolorum" drawn by Jan Stradanus and Maarten van Heemskerck, published by the same Philips Galle in Antwerp in 1575 and 1582 and again by Visscher in the first decades of the 17th century.
View of the house of the Roman centurion Cornelius in Caesarea, open. In the basement artisan workshop (tannery?), the apostle Peter in prayer on the first floor. On the right a porch with several people, landscape in the background. in the sky the vision of St. Peter, various animals on a cloud.
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish), 210.II.
New Hollstein 212 (Stradanus), New Hollstein 207 (Galle). 67396399
