The holy apostolic father Polycarp of Smyrna writes in a book and looks at the angel sitting next to him with a burning torch and bishop's mitre. Polycarp is standing on a pedestal. On the obverse the scene in which he is stabbed to death at the stake because the fire will not consume him. Print marked top center: II: Part Pag. 150., St. Polycarp of Smyrna, Apostolic Father Polycarp Bishop of Smyrna, There to Burn, in't Fire Set, and Pierced , print maker: Jan Luyken, (mentioned on object), print maker: Zacharias Chatelain (II), (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jan Goeree, (

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