Releasing or visiting the prisoners, Philips Galle, 1577 Canvas Print

Releasing or visiting the prisoners, Philips Galle, 1577 Canvas Print

The liberation or visits of the prisoners as the fourth of the works of mercy. The performance is set in an architectural frame with arch. Above, in cartouche, the title. In the foreground, prisoners sit in a block; they are visited by some of the citizens who offer them food. On the second, right, Paul and Silas in philippi prison; on the left, Peter is freed from prison by an angel. In the frame left Jeremiah with text from Jeremiah 21; on the right a king from the O.T. with text from Ecclesiastes 4. In the four extreme corners scenes from the O.T. and N.T. that deal with prisoners: Abraham and Melchisedek; David and the Amalekites; Daniel in the lion's den; Tobias. With explanatory texts from O.T. and N.T. Under the performance four lines of Latin. This print is part of a series of prints of the works of mercy (consisting of a title page and seven numbered prints).

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