The raising of the dead.

Engraving, 25,7 x 25,4 cm, laid paper, signed at bottom: "Ioha(nnes) Strada. [inuen] Ph[ilip]s Galle Excu.", Latin text in round margin (repaired at bottom center including sm. part of signature, trimmed to text in margin, framing line in black ink added, few sm. repairs).

Laid down on paper, under passe-partout.

1st print from a series on "The four last things". Interesting tondo with Christ sending the angels with a trumpet call (Matthew 24:31) and raising the dead (1 Corinthians 15:52). A skeleton stepping out of his grave at lower centre. 1st state before the signature of Goltzius and the later address of Claes Jansz. Visscher (ca. 1586-1652).
Ref. New Hollstein (Johannes Stradanus) 119.I (of II). - New Hollstein (Hendrick Goltzius) 342.I (of II).