2-708-315 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Martyrdom of St John the Evangelist', c17th century, (1908). St John was boiled in oil for refusing to worship pagan gods under the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian at the Latin Gate (Rome). From "The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Volume 12 - October 1907 to March 1908". [The Burlington Magazine, Limited, London, 1908]