Jesus on the Mount of Olives

Jesus on the Mount of Olives

Wenceslaus Hollar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate 1. Jesus kneels in prayer in the upper right of the print. Judas holds a purse but tries to conceal it from from the monk and the pilgrim standing at the gate at bottom left. After a follower of Hans Holbein

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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