Saint Roch with his dog, indicating a plague bubo on his groin. Line engraving by PL after B. Passarotti, ca. 1580.

[1580?]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 43.3 x 29.4 cm

PL ; BPassaroto inuē Initials of presumed engraver "PL" in monogram on tree-trunk in background. Initials "BP" of Passarotti's name also in monogram

Thieme-Becker and Nagler mention a companion print by PL after Passarotti showing Saint Sebastian

Nagler cites PL as the monogram of an unidentified engraver active towards the end of the sixteenth century

G.K. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten, Munich: G. Hirth's Verlag, vol. 4, no. 1255

Wellcome Collection 10076i