The ancient prints - Engravings

THE TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCH THROUGH THE EUCHARIST
Etching and engraving engraving, mm. 645x1043. Table made with two plates.
"Petr. Paul Rubbens pinxit "(to the left); "S. à Bolswert sculpsit "(in the center below); "Nicolaus Lauwers excudit
Antverpiae. Cum Privilege "(to the right).
Inscriptions: "ECCLESIA / PER S. EVCHARISTIAM / TRIVMPHANS" (above); verses: "Perge triumphatrix ECCLESIA:
quae tibi vincit / Hostibus à dimitis Hostia nomen habet // haeresin, errores Christo duce subijcis, orbem / Clave sacra et
clavo cuncta movente, regis. // For septena, tuas moderatur dona quadrigas / Spiritus et dius qui iuga flectit Amor. // Sic
Superas, ut tot, not sit satis a triumphis, / sed caput exornat trina coronam tuam. ";
dedicates: "SERENISSIMO PRINCIPI LEOPOLDO GVLIELMO ARCIDVCHI AVSTRIAE, BELGARVM AC
BVRGVNDIORVM PRO PHILIPPO III. REGE CATHOL. GVBERNATORI SACROSANCTAE EVCHARISTIAE
AVSTRIACO CVLTORI, SANCTAE ROM. CATHOL. ECCLESIAE DEBT PROPVGNATORS OBSEQVY ERGO
PET. HANNEKART D.C. ".
The engraving, with the dedication of Pietre Hannekart to the Archduke Leopoldo Guglielmo. The most probable model is found at
Prado, n. 1698, while a grisaille is kept at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, n. 228. Another interpretation
of this scene, deriving from the engraving of Bolswert, is by François Ragot, n. 370.