Accession number
PML 145850.19
Published
[London : s.n., 1643?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item, text at lower left reading: Know thou who vouchsafest to meditate upon this Apocalyptik Type ...
Engraved plate from Richard More's English translation of Joseph Mede's Clavis Apocalyptica, published as The Key of the Revelation, searched and demonstrated out of the Naturall and proper Charecters of the Visions, originally published: London : R.B. for Phil. Stephens, 1643.
"Place this betwixt pag. 26 & 27"--Lower right.
Mounted as item 19 in an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Engraved plate from Richard More's English translation of Joseph Mede's Clavis Apocalyptica, published as The Key of the Revelation, searched and demonstrated out of the Naturall and proper Charecters of the Visions, originally published: London : R.B. for Phil. Stephens, 1643.
"Place this betwixt pag. 26 & 27"--Lower right.
Mounted as item 19 in an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 350 x 393 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Schematic diagram intended to visualize and elucidate the prophecies of the Revelation; showing a scroll at top center, labeled: Mr. Haydock his booke sealed; with an open book with images showing the martydom of various saints at at bottom center: Mr. Haydock his booke opened; diagram labeled at left: Epocha or the beginning of the Apocalips; at right: The Ende/The Generall Resurection.
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