Accession number
PML 145850.79
Published
[Leyden? : s.n., 1664]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
At head: Summas scopus ultimarum Revelationum ...
Engraved illustration removed from a copy of: Lux e tenebris, novis radiis aucta : Hoc est, solemnissimæ divinæ revelationes in usum seculi nostri factæ ... (Leyden? : s.n., 1665, 1664-1667), pt. III. Nicolao Drabicio ("Anno 1664"), p. 472 (facing). Volume evidently compiled and edited by J.A. Comenius.
Mounted as item 79 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 illustration removed from a copy of: Lux e tenebris, novis radiis aucta : Hoc est, solemnissimæ divinæ revelationes in usum seculi nostri factæ ... (Leyden? : s.n., 1665, 1664-1667), pt. III. Nicolao Drabicio ("Anno 1664"), p. 472 (facing). Volume evidently compiled and edited by J.A. Comenius.
Mounted as item 79 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: 158 x 123 mm; sheet: 184 x 135 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the peoples of the world worshipping at the altar of Christ, with the figures representing the various groups of worshippers identified within the engraving, including two kneeling American Indians, labeled "Americani".
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