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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the great fish swims in the water on his back, Jonah emerges from his mouth in the posture of prayer -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King David sits on his throne with a harp beside him a book in hand -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. Having placed the stone in the ground, the bishop sprinkles the area with the blessed water once again -
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: Taken from the title page of an early sixteenth-century Catholic work on the Mass, this woodcut depicts a congregant kneeling as the priest per-forms the eucharistic service. Note the four woodcut border panels that have been used rather crudely to frame the central engraving -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Crucifixion with Open Tomb. The wood-engraving (on t.p.) has the monogram of H. Schäufelein, according to WA. Jesus cross prayer disciple -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus, with the Apostle John and Mary the mother of Jesus standing nearby, was included in a 1519 treatise by Luther on the worthy reception of the Eucharist. A skull is at the foot of the cross (alluding to the biblical references to Golgotha [the place of the ... -
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: This historiated title-page border (copied from a folio border by Lucas Cranach, the Elder) features philosophers gathered around the Castalian spring. Here the Delphi priestesses bathed before announcing their oracles -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The coat of arms of Hieronymus Emser (1478-1527), one of Luther's most vigorous opponents