Sixteenth century

Just a dude in armor standing on a devil.

From: Stephen Batman, A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the…
Printed: 1569
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 1581)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 15 May 2014: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the… (1569), the work of Stephen Batman and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 1581). Copied into this book the fifteenth day of May, 2014. Finis.

Cite the original
Batman, Stephen.
A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the….
1569.
Early English Books Online (STC 1581).

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