A martyr stands bound to a stake and dressed in loincloth. A soldier, whose sleeves are rolled up, flays the martyr with a knife, which he wields in his right hand. As the soldier pulls away the man's skin, blood pours from the wound. The martyr gazes upward. (Cartouche: "Here their skins are pluckt of alyue.92.90." ["Here their skins are plucked off alive. 92. 90."]). This woodcut appears on the "Table of the Ten First Persecutions of the Primitive Church" foldout illustration in the second (1570) and fourth (1583) editions. Luborsky and Ingram 11223/1A (detail). JPEG file (355 KB).
"MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection).
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