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In the image and fower beastes ...

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William Rogers
active 1589-1604

In the image and fower beastes ...

Published

[London] : [publisher not identified], [1590]

engraving
sheet: 188 x 127 mm
Peel 0004
Notes
Title from item; full caption reads: In the image and fower beastes, written in Chaldy, Daniel might not name the oppressours, nor the Jewes the oppressed: But at Babels fall, in the ram and buck, he nameth them to his Ebrewes, wryhtinge in ebrewe.
Illustration with decorative border to Hugh Broughton's A Concent of Scripture (London, 1590 or later), with plates by William Rogers, based on those in STC 3850 attributed to Jodocus Hondius the Elder. See also Peel 0003, from the same publication.
Two small holes in print, ca. 1/8 inch (1.5 mm) in diameter.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: unknown.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Two compartments; above, four beasts, inscribed 'Babel', 'Madai & Elam', 'Alexand', and 'Lagidæ Seleucidæ'; below, a ram, inscribed 'Madai Elam', and a five-horned goat, inscribed 'Iavan'.

Associated names
Illustration for (work): Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612. Concent of Scripture.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department