Angels holding back the four winds
Dublin Core
Title
Angels holding back the four winds
Description
Two armed angels seen in the foreground, and another two in the background, waving their swords against the four winds; at centre, an angel placing a protective seal on the forehead of a figure; another angel seen above, with the cross; in an oval design.
Engraving with contemporary colouring
Engraving with contemporary colouring
Creator
After: Jan Snellinck
Publisher
Gerard de Jode
Date
1585
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Relation
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1968-1018-1-375
Format
engraving
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
engraving
Tags
Citation
After: Jan Snellinck, “Angels holding back the four winds,” The Little Gidding Harmonies, accessed June 21, 2025, https://digitalbookhistory.com/littlegidding/items/show/1165.