Dürer vs. John Bale's Image of Two Churches. John kneeling before the elders.

Dürer vs. John Bale's Image of Two Churches. John kneeling before the elders.
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Dürer vs. John Bale's Image of Two Churches. John kneeling before the elders.

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

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Dürer vs. John Bale’s Image of Two Churches. John kneeling before the…, 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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