Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici escapes captivity

A print reproducing, in reverse, a scene from the border below 'The Healing of the Lame Man', one of the ten Sistine Chapel tapestries designed by Raphael under commission of Pope Leo X. Lettered below image with publisher's address and text in Latin describing the subject. Lettered within image with artists' names and plate number: 7.

From a series of 15 plates (including title-page with dedication to Leopoldo de’ Medici) after the monochromatic frieze-like scenes illustrating episodes from the life of Pope Leo X in the borders of the Sistine Chapel tapestries. The plates were etched by Pietro Santi Bartoli and the series was published in Rome by Gian Giacomo de Rossi.