A tall base ending in two allegorical female figures of Love (a woman suckling two children) and Hope (a woman with an anchor), which has ears of corn and a bunch of grapes to left and right, is spanned by a baldachin, on which there is a crown and a globe; cherubs’ heads are depicted in the baldachin and under the crown. In the centre of this canopy, against a golden aureole and resting on a carpet of clouds with two putti, is a depiction of the monstrance, in the form of a carrying case, with a lamb lying on a cross on the lid.
Artist:
Joannes Petrus Antonius Verschuylen
Dating:
unknown
Material:
Watercolour; brown and black pen on paper
Marks :
Proprietary mark (stamp) on the reverse in the lower right corner.
Place:
Plantin-Moretus-Museum, Antwerp
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