Christ offering the keys of heaven to the kneeling shepherd Peter

Christ offering the keys of heaven to the kneeling shepherd Peter

Christ offering the keys of heaven to the kneeling shepherd Peter; to left, Christ seated holding a pair of large keys and blessing St Peter, seen dressed as a shepherd, kneeling before Christ; the dove of the Holy Spirit seen flying above Peter; sheep seen on either side; a view of Rome behind.
Engraving

Print made by: Hieronymus Wierix
After: Maarten de Vos

Joan Baptista Vrints

1611 (before)

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1870-0625-734

engraving