Engel met de zuil, roede en zweep

A winged angel looks down with a somber expression toward the instruments of Christ's Passion. A large Corinthian column is prominently featured, wrapped with ropes and a bundle of birch rods, while a multi-tailed scourge lies on the stone ledge in the foreground. The work uses fine, dense cross-hatching to create deep shadows and a sense of three-dimensional form.

This print belongs to the 'Arma Christi' tradition, where the instruments of the Passion served as focal points for intense meditative practices intended to evoke empathy and spiritual transformation. Aegidius Sadeler was a pivotal figure in the Northern Mannerist movement and later became the preeminent engraver at the court of Rudolf II in Prague, where such religious imagery coexisted with Hermetic and alchemical pursuits.