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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Zechariah sits on the ground, and before him is an angel, an armed soldier on horseback (red horse, among the myrtle trees), and in the clouds are visible four soldiers with swords and four horns. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Three women come to the tomb with their jars of ointment to anoint the body of Jesus for burial, only to find the stone at the door of the tomb rolled away and an angel inside. This woodcut illustrates Luther’s sermon on Mark 16, which identifies the three women as Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An angel shows John the new heaven and the new earth. A city is stretched out before him below. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Three women with jars of ointment come to the tomb of Jesus, only to find it empty and an angel sitting astride the coffin -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The woman, the child, and the dragon. The child is snatched away by angels to God in heaven, while Michael and the angels battle the there. The woman wears a crown and is given eagles' wings, and the earth swallows up the river poured out of dragon's mouth. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Triumphant Christ is flanked by the Electoral and Ducal coats of arms of Saxony -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The sixth angel blows a trumpet, and a third of humankind is slaughtered. There is a golden altar before God, and below it are breastplated riders on horses with lions' heads. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As God appears behind an altar with an angel on either side (one with a trumpet), there appears below four horsemen and several angels slaying humans. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The seventh seal. Angels with trumpets are at the altar before God. Thunder, lightning, earthquakes, hail, and fire afflict the earth, and ships are destroyed. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The seventh angel appears amidst clouds with a luminous face and legs as pillars, and John kneels before him with a book in hand. -
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: Seven angels pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God, and humans are shown suffering afflictions from this. Below, a beast spews out spirits like frogs toward a king and another royal figure. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In the clouds is the Son of Man with a sickle, speaking with one angel as another hovers below. On the earth one angel harvests grain and another grapes, while a man and a woman operate a wine press. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In the clouds are four heads blowing the four winds away, as an angel flies overhead with a T square, and below are angels with swords. One angel with pen in hand draws a cross on the foreheads of humans, thus marking/sealing the 144,000. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Abraham is about to sacrifice Isaac with his sword on the flaming altar nearby, an angel restrains him. A ram appears caught in a thicket nearby Akedah -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The angel presents a book to John, who kneels before him. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Surrounded by seven angels blowing on trumpets, God stands behind the altar and with him is another angel with a golden censor in hand. The sun and moon and clouds are shown, a figure on a boat in a rough sea, and another angel below the altar calling out "Woe." -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An altar is shown surrounded by angels, and beneath it are the (souls of the) martyrs. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A nativity scene with the baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the Nativity. Note the date 1523. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the nativity in Bethlehem. Note the date 1523 and the artist's monogram "VS" -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This familiar scene of the birth of Jesus shows the shepherds hastening to the manger scene -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This depiction of the last judgment adorned the title-page of Otto Brunfels' (1488-1534) work on the "Christian Regimen"." He had been a Carthusian monk and later a physician in Bern -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The angels and armies of God defeat the armies of the beast in the heavens, and the beast is thrown into the lake of fire. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The lamb is shown with a banner in the sky, surrounded by angels playing on harps, and four beasts with wings: lion, human figure, eagle, and ox. A book is opened and the cities of the earth are being destroyed. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As one angel puts the sickle to the grain to reap it, another harvests grapes, and another angel works the winepress. God is in the clouds above with sickle in hand. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the victorious Christ appears in the heavens, angels separate the saved from the lost, and the latter are hurried into the gaping mouth of Hell -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus teaches his disciples about the coming of the Son of Man and the final judgment -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An angel flies overhead blowing a trumpet, and below him is the opening to the abyss with smoke billowing out; several locusts/scorpions are set around it and the bodies of humans lie around it as well. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The fifth angel blows a trumpet, as smoke from the shaft of the bottomless pit rises. There is a fallen star, locusts with crowns, human faces, women's hair, lion's teeth, and scorpion tails. The angel of the bottomless pit appears in the smoke, and men lie dead around the mouth of the pit. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The fifth seal (Rev. 6:9-11). Men and women are the martyrs below the altar, over which an angel stands. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Matthew sits at a writing desk, as an angel hovers nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Angels empty the bowls of God's wrath on the earth, as the sun shines above and the beast (with the triple tiara) emits frogs from his mouth below. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Babylon is consumed by flames and merchants wail, two angels fly overhead. Open book. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The city of Babylon burns, as one angel throws a millstone into the sea and another rejoices in midair. Merchants standing nearby are griefstricken. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In response to King Hezekiah's prayer, the death angel flies above the Assyrian army and slays thousands of them with his sword. In the background one can see the walls of Jerusalem and the soldiers of Judah and Hezekiah atop them. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Mary prays, the archangel Gabriel appears and the Holy Spirit descends on her in the form of a dove -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The 144,000. Angels hovering with cross and sword hold back the four winds of the earth -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is tempted by the devil (a hairy figure with horns, a tail, and breasts) in the wilderness. In the foreground the devil presents Jesus with a loaf of bread (similarly-shaped stones are scattered on the ground nearby), and in the background there are fields and a city, with Jesus, the tempte... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Lot is led away from Sodom and Gomorrah by two angels, his two daughters trailing behind, the pillar of salt that once was his wife is visible on the road at a distanceand and fire rains from heaven on the cities -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Matthew sits at a desk and writes in a book, and an angel appears nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here the Evangelist Matthew writes his gospel account, receiving inspiratiion from the angel that appears outside his window. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Luke the Evangelist sits at his writing desk, composing his gospel account. At his feet rests his attribute, the winged ox, and out the window is a crucifix with the angels. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Abraham holds a sword overhead, about to slay his son Isaac, when an angel intervenes. To the side is a ram, horns entangled in a thicket, and a pot of coals for the sacrifice. This is one of several full-page woodcuts, perhaps prepared by Lucas Cranach for Luther’s translation of the Old Testament. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The device of publisher Samuel Selfisch shows the prophet Samuel anointing David to be king of Israel -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device for Thomas Anshelm Badensis (note the monogram) includes the Hebrew and Greek forms of "Jesus." Here it occurs on the last leaf of the 1518 edition of the great sixteenth-century Christian Hebraist, Johann Reuchlin’s, work on Hebrew accentuation and orthography (dedicated to ... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Martin Lechler (d. 1594) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device for Ioanne (Iehan) Petit, showing a leopard and alion on either side of a tree holding a shield with a crest, angels or putti above. Jean Petit (fl. 1492-1530) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Amandus Farckall