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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The wise woman of Tekoah approaches David with her request. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Taken from the printing of an early and very popular sermon by Luther on indulgences and grace, this woodcut shows Jesus being taken down from the cross by Mary the mother of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea, and the Apostle John. This illustration is reminiscent of the “Man of Sorrows” image shown lat... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Saul kneels with scepter in hand, Samuel anoints him. Attendants stand nearby, one with a crown. A castle appears in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus shows his mother Mary and the disciple John (his attribute, the book, in hand) looking on with the Roman soldiers and Jerusalem in the background. It was one of several illustrations in Michael Helding’s Roman Catholic catechism. Moderate Catholic suffraga... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: For this image: The text around the woodcut is taken from Galatians 6:14. “Far be it from me that I should boast, except in the cross of my Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.” -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A woman with a crown on he head sits at a desk on which there is an open book. Vessels are on the shelf nearby -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King Xerxes is seated at the banquet table with his retinue -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A king (Solomon?) sits between two women, who argue their cases -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King Solomon sits on his throne, scepter in hand -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A crowned woman, with a flag in one handa cup in the other, rides a four-headed (lion, eagle, bull,man) beast. Each foot of the beast corresponds to a head -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: From the 'Zürich Bible' and based on the sketches of Hans Holbein, the Younger (1497/98-1543), this illustration of the creation story in Genesis 2 shows Eve rising in the posture of prayer from the side of the sleeping Adam, as God stands alongside giving the sign of blessing. Several of the ani... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the old Pharaoh, who knew and favored Joseph is laid by his attendants in the tomb, a new Pharaoh with crown and scepter receives his subjects from a balcony. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Joseph is led away to prison by two men as Potiphar, with sword and crown, and his wife stand looking on. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A winged woman stands on the moon in the posture of prayer, with a crown of twelve stars on her hand. Above her two angels carry a baby on a cloth stretched between them. Above all is visible God and the ark in the clouds. A beast with seven heads, attacked by angels with swords and spears, conf... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: John's vision of the four horsemen: one with a crown and bow and arrow, another with a sword, another with scales, and the last as a skeleton with pitchfork. Human forms are slain before them. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Solomon sits on his throne, scepter in hand and an advisor nearby, a messenger kneels before him with a letter. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Bathsheba pleads with the aged King David on behalf of her son Solomon. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of King David playing the harp. God is rendered in the upper left-hand corner in the clouds -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of David and Goliath -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image of Jesus depicts him as the “man of sorrows” (cf. Isaiah 53:3 and the history of its Christian interpretation), surrounded by the instru-ments of his suffering and death (e.g. spear, cross, hammer, die, scourge, crown of thorns). It is used as a title-page illustration for one of Luthe... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Joannes Oporinus (1507-1568) alludes to the myth of the musician Arion’s rescue from drowning by a dolphin -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This is the portrait of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The two witnesses stand before the crowned beast, as John measures the Temple in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Solomon kneels before the menora/candelabra in prayer, with his crown on his head but his scepter on the floor. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the fulfillment of the Suffering Servant song in the crucifixion of Jesus. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Pilate brings Jesus Christ, arrayed with a crown of thorns and a reed scepter, out before a crowd below. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus Christ is brought down from the cross. The "INRI" inscription is visable over his head; the crown of thorns is left on the right crossbeam; and a ladder is used for the process. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of a queen holding a crucifix and an open book. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Queen of Sheba visits King Solomon -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Before a king seated on his throne, a man raises his sword above the head of another -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This beautifully crafted initial letter 'E' features two nudes with a cross, lily, and crown of thorns -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King David raises his hands to heaven in adoration as a harp lies beside him on the ground. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of Boaz, Naomi, and Ruth (?) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus Christ is brought down from the cross. The "INRI" inscription is visable over his head; the crown of thorns is left on the crossbeam on the right; and a ladder is used for the process. Jesus' disciples look on, and Joseph of Arimathea stands at the foot of the cross. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus Christ with the crown of thorns on his head and a guard at either side appears at a window. Soldiers stand outside, where a cross has been prepared -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The six steps to Solomon's throne were decorated with lions. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This woodcut shows Saint Bernard of Clairvaux’s vision of Jesus as the “Man of Sorrows” with the instruments of his suffering. On the upper left are the Electoral and Ducal arms of Saxony, and at the base of the image are the bishop’s mitre and a heart pierced by an arrow -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Electoral coat of arms of Saxony appears at the base of this representation of the Christian Trinity -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King Darius conducts the competition among his Jewish pages about wisdom. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Queen Esther kneels before the throne of King Xerxes and touches the tip of his scepter, as the royal attendants stand around them. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With the fire on the altar and a sheep on the ground before it, King Solomon with crown and scepter teaches the assembled people, who assume the posture of prayer with clasped hands. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: God is seated on his throne with scepter and orb in hand and a crown on his head; to one side are the four winged beasts (with the face of a human, lion, eagle, and ox), and to the other is the wheel within a wheel. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Electoral arms of Saxony are shown on the left, and the Ducal arms of Saxony are on the right -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Eucharius Cervicornus (fl. 1516-1547)