[Engraved illustrated title page from Tabula chronographica status ecclesiae Catholicae].

Engraved illustrated title page removed from a copy of a Latin edition of Jacques Gaultier's "Tabula chronographica status ecclesiae Catholicae" (Cologne : Peter Henning, 1616), featuring a detailed decorative architectural frame and an engraving of a ship, representing the Church, probably executed by the engraver Jacques de Fournier. Cf. Hind, Arthur M. A History of Engraving and Etching. New York: Dover, 1963. p. 440.
Mounted as item 14 into 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).