• Jérôme David (etcher)
• Jérôme David (engraver (printmaker))
• Giovanni Battista Montano (draughtsman)

Design for an altar with an altarpiece showing the Agony in the Garden

printed during the first half of the 17th century

- This print depicts a design for an altarpiece, complete with statues and a painting. The painting showss the Agony in the Garden. Flanking this are two sculpted angels holding the instruments of the passion: the left angel holds a sudarium and a pike with a sponge, while the right angel holds a column and a bundle of sticks, signifying Christ's flagellation. At the top of the altar there are three sculpted ornamental half-figures.
- The incomplete series of numbered prints, DR1988:0306 - DR1988:0331, shows Early Baroque church facades in Rome, altars, tombs, wall monuments, tabernacles and an antique temple.

• pattern drawing
• theoretical drawing

Engraving

plate mark: 23.1 x 15.1 cm sheet: 23.9 x 15.6 cm

DR1988:0321

• rendering

• elevation (drawing)

numbered - by an unknown hand, in the plate, above the image, u.l.: "23"

• architecture

• altar
• altarpiece