The holy church father Gregory of Nyssa beholds an angel sitting on the back of a demonic beast and restraining it with chains. Gregory stands on a pedestal. On the obverse the scene in which he and his deacon pray to God while they are chased by Roman soldiers. Print marked top center: II Part Pag. 213., St. Gregory of Nyssa, Church Father Gregory, Bishop of Neo-Cesareen Inde Woestyne, miraculously escaped his persecutors , print maker: Jan Luyken, (mentioned on object), print maker: Zacharias Chatelain (II), (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Jan Goeree, (mentioned on object

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