Salome shows the head of John the Baptist to her parents at the feast. Engraving, 1652, after P.P. Rubens.

[Amsterdam] : N. Visscher excud.

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 52.8 x 41.3 cm

Filia Herodiadis dat caput Iohannis Baptistæ, iussu Herodis decollati, matri suæ in patina. Marci, 6, 27. P.P. Rubens pinx. ... Lettering continues: "Herodes vol van vreucht op sÿn Geboorten-Dach/ Geest voor een yd'le dans Iohannuis hooft en leven:/ Maer ach om dat hÿ meer den mensch als Godt ontsach/ Verandert al sÿn vreucht in tsidderen en beven". Lettering then repeated in French and German. "Dance Herodiades thy feet are shod. With pride, but stained with John Baptists blood,/ Trough Herods wil, who like the morning starre,/ Did mount on high, but fell as Lucifer"

After an engraving in the opposite direction by Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert after Rubens

Wellcome Collection 24123i