Antique eighteenth-century copper engraving with St James the Less standing in a landscape, leaning on the fuller's club with which he was martyred, and a group of houses behind. Below, beside the name, his article of the Creed: "Creo en el Espíritu Santo".
Antique eighteenth-century copper engraving with St James the Less standing in a landscape, leaning on the fuller's club with which he was martyred, and a group of houses behind. Below, beside the name, his article of the Creed: "Creo en el Espíritu Santo".
It belongs to a series of apostles in which each figure carries an assigned article of the Creed, widely current in Spanish household devotion.
Medium: Copper engraving
Date: 18th century
Dimensions: 2.9 x 4.1 in (7.3 x 10.4 cm)
Condition: Fair; image clean, the paper toned with some rust spots in the margins