An etching of the dark interior of a cavern with light from a torch, held by one of a band of men, illuminating the forms of two bodies laid out on the ground. Inscribed in the margin, lower left; CASTIGLIONE GENOVESE / Inven. The print depicts the catacomb in which the bodies of the two martyred saints were hidden when the early Christian burial grounds were desecrated during the Roman persecutions. A group of men stumble into the cavernous vault, huddled together in fear, their single blazing torch revealing the corpses – St Paul headless, St Peter still clutching his keys.