St. John Eating the Book. Dürer vs. John Bale’s Image of Two Churches.

St. John Eating the Book. Dürer vs. John Bale's Image of Two Churches.
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St. John Eating the Book. Dürer vs. John Bale's Image of Two Churches.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 9 December 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth St. John Eating the Book. Dürer vs. John Bale’s Image of Two Churches., the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 1297). Copied into this book the ninth day of December, 2015. Finis.

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