John the evangelist on Patmos writing his revelations in a book, the eagle sitting beside him holding the inkwell in its beak In the sky one of John's visions: the pregnant woman, standing on the crescent moon, is threatened by a seven-headed dragon, but the child she has given birth to is carried off by angels On the left, a forest Below the scene the title in Latin, a text in Dutch and a reference to the Bible text in Op 12, John on the Isle of Patmos Mulieris parturientis signum, cuius partui, qui ad Deum et thronum eius rapitur, frustra insidiatur draco Royaalbijbel , print maker: anonymous, Johann Sadeler (I), Maerten de Vos, Amsterdam, 1652 - 1702, paper, engraving, h 406 mm × w 504 mm.
John the evangelist on Patmos writing his revelations in a book, the eagle sitting beside him holding the inkwell in its beak In the sky one of John's visions: the pregnant woman, standing on the crescent moon, is threatened by a seven-headed dragon, but the child she has given birth to is carried off by angels On the left, a forest Below the scene the title in Latin, a text in Dutch and a reference to the Bible text in Op 12, John on the Isle of Patmos Mulieris parturientis signum, cuius partui, qui ad Deum et thronum eius rapitur, frustra insidiatur draco Royaalbijbel , print maker: anonymous, Johann Sadeler (I), Maerten de Vos, Amsterdam, 1652 - 1702, paper, engraving, h 406 mm × w 504 mm