Detail of Peter’s vision of the unclean beasts on the roof of the house of Simon the Tanner: a sheet descends from heaven full of four-footed beasts, creeping things and fowl of the air.
Print signed by Maerten de Vos “M. de Vos inuent”.
Latin text below: Orandi studio dum Petrus summa petivit, aspiciens coelum, mystica signa videt.
This is found as part of an album, with Dutch title: Den Grooten Emblemata Sacra, bestaande in meer dan vier hondert bybelsche figuren, zoo des Ouden als des Nieuwen Testaments [in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam]
Size 186 x 124 mm.
The print is not dated, said to be either 1590-1600 or 1653-1654
