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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Simson lies in anguish on the rack ("Cutbert Simson upon the racke." ["Cuthbert Simpson upon the rack"]). Under the direction of a priest and two richly dressed figures, two workers operate the device. Stairs ascend upward at the left of the image. In an upper right insert, Simson stands handcuff... -
Creator: Bellin, Samuel 1799-1894, engraver and Claxton, Marshall, 1813-1881, artist Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: "Painted by M. Claxton; engraved by Sam[ue]l Bellin." JPG file (435 KB). -
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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Against a panoramic backdrop of Windsor Castle ("The Descripsion of Windsor [Castle]" ["The Description of Windsor Castle"]), three figures burn at the stake. Workers light the pyre, and richly dressed spectators and soldiers observe, some on horseback and others on foot. At the top of the image,... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A man and a woman dressed in loincloth burn at the stake. Wielding a sharp hook, a soldier prepares to strike the man. Armed with a pike, a second soldier places the man’s entrails into the fire. The man looks down at the burning. (Cartouche: "Some burnt with their entrals torne out. 34." ["Some ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Taylor ("Mercifull father for Jesus sake, receiue my soule." ["Merciful father for Jesus sake, receive my soul"]) stands among faggots and extends his arms outward. Observing spectators and soldiers anticipate Taylor's execution. Two supervisors direct the preparations from horseback. This woodcu... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: While Doctor Henry Cole ("D. Cole.") preaches from a pulpit, a friar and two others pull Cranmer ("Cranmer.") down from a platform. A congregation and a group of clerics observe Cranmer's arrest. The event occurs at the University Church of St. Mary, in Oxford. This woodcut appears in the first t... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Bishop Bonner (identified xylographically as "Bonner.") sits with three other priests and burns Tomkins's hand. A fourth man observes, and a fifth glances away. In the OSU copy of the 1563 version of the illustration (pictured here), someone has torn out Bonner's face in an apparent act of deface... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Two soldiers observe as Tyrrell burns Allin's right hand by means of a lit candle. Allin had been carrying water to her mother, who lies sick in bed. Within the house, a man (presumably Allin's father) kneels before her mother and folds his hands in prayer. In an upper insert, Allin and her paren... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: John Wesley with James Hamilton, M.D., and Rev. Joseph Cole captioned "Eighty-seven years have I sojourned on this earth endeavoring to do good." JPG file (372 KB). -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Emperor Constantine I stands at his throne and embraces a bishop. The emperor holds the rod of his office in his left hand, and other bishops observe with approval. The damage to the OSU copy of this illustration (pictured here) results from a reader having defaced the woodcut that appears on the... -
Contributing Institution: Ohio State University Libraries and Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: This woodcut image depicts selected reforms of the English church that transpired during the reign of King Edward VI. Priests and tonsured friars carry censing bells, mass books, crucifixes, and other allegedly dangerous objects of Roman Catholic devotion from a church ("The Temple well purged") ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: An enthroned emperor observes the suffering and martyrdom of Christian bishops. The emperor holds a sword, which symbolizes his authority, and soldiers attend him. The woodcut contains six scenes of torture: flames engulf a martyr (upper left); lions devour a naked man (upper center); two workers... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: "This print representing the providential deliverance of John Wesley, when six years of age from the fire by which the parsonage house at Epworth in Lincolnshire was destroyed on the night of February 9, 1709." JPG file (500 KB). -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: "This print representing the providential deliverance of John Wesley, when six years of age from the fire by which the parsonage house at Epworth in Lincolnshire was destroyed on the night of February 9, 1709." JPG file (543 KB). -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: "This print representing the providential deliverance of John Wesley, when six years of age from the fire by which the parsonage house at Epworth in Lincolnshire was destroyed on the night of February 9, 1709." JPG file (533 KB). -
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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: Jobson was born in London, of Methodist parentage. He was converted in 1829 and entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1834 after serving an apprenticeship to an architect. Jobson was a popular preacher and writer whose religious works such as A Mother's Portrait (1854) sold well on both sides of the...