St. Cecilia, Jan Sadeler, the Elder, ca. 1550 – 1600, Marten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603, Engraving on paper, The saint is seated before a music-desk, singing; she is accompanied at the organ by an angel. A yong man enters the room in the left rear. Over it is an inscription tablet: 'PRECATIO D. CAECILIAE/PRO VIRGINITATE CON-/SERVANDA ORANTIS.' Signed bottom right: 'Ioan. Sadler sculp. et M. de Cos figurauit.' Bottom margin: a poem, beginning: 'VIRGO, fida Dei sponsa; ending: 'At Diuum excipiat locus. ', Netherlands, ca. 1580, Print

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