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Religious Ceremonies and Symbolism

A collection of historical depictions of religious ceremonies, including weddings, papal interactions, and symbolic representations of death and faith.

Cathars (Albigeois) ill-treat their enemies : anti-Cathar propaganda by Catholic convert Collin de Plancy who had formerly opposed the Church Date: 13/14th centuries

Tupac Inca Yupanqui and a Quipucamayoc. Unknown

History of Mother Moreau and Van Haren Wonderbaren Dog / Histoire de Mère Moreau et de Son Chien Merveilleux. Leaf with 8 performances from the story of Mother Moreau and her wonderful dog that behaves like a human. Under each image a caption in Dutch and in French. Numbered in the middle of: N. 236.

Chinese costumes: 1 General Ki, 2 pipe smoker, 3 porter, 4 musician, 5 Shanghai woman, 6 Buddhist monk, 7 boatman, 8 Cantonese woman, 9 trader, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 645, Volume XXVI, July 7, 1855.

Frederick Stuart Church, Amateur Naturalists, 1873, wood engraving on paper.

Dance of the Sufi dervishes. 19th century. Colored engraving.

The young man with plumed cap and cape over one shoulder eyes the lady, but she is off to mass, missal in hand... Date: circa 1475

Album of the Follet Spirit // Come, Children of the Fatherland! / The day of glory has come

Minister and a priest, Patricq Kroon, 1920 - 1930 drawing A smiling minister and a gloomy priest. Sketch for a political cartoon. Netherlands paper. pencil. ink. watercolor (paint) pen / brush political caricatures and satires. priest (Roman Catholic). minister ~ government

Dance of the Sufi dervishes. 19th-century colored engraving.

Princess Mathilde. The priest does not like bones.

Carlo Pellegrini, 1839-1889, Italian, Vanity Fair - Clergy. 'Not a brawler.' Bishop of Oxford. 24 July 1869, 1869. Chromolithograph.

Life of Saint Philip of Jesus (Vida de San Felipe de Jesus) José Montes de Oca (Mexican, active ca. 1788-1820). Life of Saint Philip of Jesus (Vida de San Felipe de Jesus), 1801. Engraved prints on white antique laid paper, modern binding, size of cover: 9 1/8 x 6 7/16 in. (23.2 x 16.4 cm). These three objects tell a story of Mexicos early nineteenth-century Creole patriotism. The Mexican independence movement was fueled by Creoles, who were often denied a voice in colonial government. The 1821 Act of Independence formalized the independence that had been declared in 1810 and was signed by many Creole aristocrats, among them Don José María Gómez de Cervantes, whose portrait is on view nearby. New World figures like the Virgin of Guadalupe, who miraculously appeared to the Indian Juan Diego in 1521, and Saint Felipe de Jesús, the first Mexican-born saint, became important nationalist symbols, supporting the idea that the independence of Mexico was divinely ordained. Estos tres objetos

Two Egyptian priests with special symbols from carved gems in the Casa Barberini. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own 100 Plates of Costumes Religious, Civil and Military of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, Franzetti, Rome, 1802.

The Emperor of China with plough and oxen in a spring ritual called the Feast of Agriculture. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824.

Woodcut by Pankraz Kempf depicting the 'Adiaphorist Chorrock of the Innocent,' illustrating figures in flowing garments within a religiously themed composition.

Sister Jane. British Cartoon Prints Collection . Women,1790-1800. , Whipping,1790-1800. , Men,1790-1800. , Devil,1790-1800.

Mexican monk wearing travelling clothes, Guanajuato, Mexico, drawing by Edouard Riou (1833-1900) Travel in Mexico, 1854-1855 by Ernest Vigneaux. Le Tour du Monde 1862

Sultana , Men, Servants, Coffee, 19th Century American Trade Cards

De Hiprihrieter, The Die Tolk (...), 1861 - 1929 print Leaf with 15 performances of different figures, such as a high priest and a monk. A four -line verse under each show. Numbered in the top left: No. 29. publisher: Leidenprint maker: Europeprint maker: Europe paper letterpress printing characters (human types). high priest ~ hierarchy of priests. monk(s), friar(s)

Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, Vanity Fair - Clergy. 'Tolerance'. Rev. Edgar Jacob, Bishop of St. Albans. 26 September 1906, 1906. Chromolithograph.

Tom is recognised by his mother in the coronation procession. Date: First published: 1882

List of mm. The members of the Clergy of Paris. (IT)

As the French quit Rome, Vittorio Emanuele II presents himself to Pius IX as the new tenant - but it will be some years before he is able to take up residence ! Date: December 1866

Reform minister officiating a at the marriage ( fool and the she-devil). From Thomas Murner's anti-Reformation pamphlet, 1518.

Saint Rose of Lima. Coloured etching.

The ardueque of ... as a president of the infernal council decrees that he will die rather than to prepare the oath The Archbishop of ... In the President of the Infernal Council decrees that he will die rather than to lend the oath ... (1791-1792) ". Print.

Ministry of altar servers, The wine, Cartoon, Anton Zampis -, Lithographer, Johann Höfelich -, printer

184./J''TENS THE JESUTIS! .. (title registered (letter))

THE GREAT CRUCIFIED !!! / (5) // Be all brothers!

Chéron, Augustin Athanasius.

Martin Luther (1483-1546). German reformer. Luther hanging his 95 theses in Wittenberg, 1517. Engraving in Germania, 1882. Colored.

CHURCH COURTER / AT HOORD

A nun wearing her habit holding a jug in the grounds of her convent. Watercolour.

'Vicar General', 1902. Artist: Spy

The body of Joseph II in the court chapel on February , Johann Hieronymus Deleteenkohl -, publishing house

What the Jesuits say! (IT)

Death in the Family, Skeletons

Ancient Greek Women in Mourning

Pig in Dunce Cap and School Master, Pigs, Bacon, Ham & Hogs

Colored skiolet icon with motifs of Ickskam.

Appearance of an angel to the widow Grietje Claes, Jan Luyken, 1678 print The appearance of an angel to Grietje Claes (or Klaas), a virtuous widow living in Zaandam, on April 14, 1672. The show shows an interior with the appearance of the angel to the woman lying in her bedstead. The angel assures the woman that God will keep the Netherlands. Under the performance a description of the event and a verse in four columns. Amsterdam paper engraving / etching / letterpress printing specific aspects of angels, e.g. intervening in human affairs

CODICE TRUJILLO DEL PERU - TOMO II - E. 167 - DANZA DE LOS CONDORES O QUISHPI CONDOR - ACUARELA - SIGLO XVIII. Author: MARTINEZ COMPAÑON BALTASAR. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

General mourning. British Cartoon Prints Collection . Slavery,England,1780-1790. , Credit,1780-1790. , Grief,1780-1790.

SkiopTikon painted in color on glass plate. "Bible Scenes- Christ Blessing Little Children" .jesus blesses the children.

Far from the world. / Reverend Eugenie de Montijo.

Coins from different countries with symbolic people, Kopeks from Siberia, Historical, digital reproduction of a collector's card from the 19th century .

Woodward, Active 1801-1802, nationality unknown, Prayers & Journals, 1801-1802. Etching, hand colored.

Sunday. Yer looks lubly Ephraim, and it all comes - using dat Higgins' soap.. Sunday. Yer looks lubly Ephraim, and it all comes - using dat Higgins' soap.

US Civil War memorial print depicting a young women mourning at tomb of Civil War soldier. The print has blank lines for the soldier name, place and date of death, above a tribute to 'A Brave and Gallant Soldier, and a True Patriot'. Soldiers in formation with American flags are in the background (BSLOC_2019_2_72)

Chips of the church!! Woodward del.. British Cartoon Prints Collection . Clergy,England,1790-1800. , Conversation,1790-1800. , Dogs,England,1790-1800.

Hoodman blind, or blind man's buff, 14th century. Men with knotted hoods attacking the blind man with reversed hood. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.

Cartoon on three pastors, ca. 1853, 1851 - 1855 print Cartoon on three different pastors, ca. 1853. On the left the Hague pastor Dirk Molenaar, walking along a windmill. Central the Utrecht pastor Lucas Merens, with three others sitting at a well -filled table. A bat above this scene. On the right the Utrecht reformed pastor and professor H.E. Vinke, with bird cage, banner, drum and trumpet. At the top a four -line quote from F. Hemsterhuis, also with captions under the three separate performances. The whole in a frame decorated with heads of animals and spider webs. Netherlands paper (aspects of) Christian Religion or the Church (as institution) ridiculed, criticized, or caricaturized. functionaries and dignitaries ~ Protestant churches Utrecht. The Hague

The monks after doing the exercise. (IT)

A petitioning, remonstrating, reforming, republican, R.S., 1782, a Republican squatting over an upturned crown, urinating into an upturned bishop's mitre. He supports himself with a staff on which is a liberty cap with the word liberty crossed out and rebellion written underneath. A doggrel Your petitioner sheweth is written underneath the image.

Freemasons, Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, Dubourg, Louis Fabricius, 1693-1775, Engraving, 1723-1743

Ayer's Pills, universally popular. , Indigenous peoples, Patent medicines, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Ontwerp Voor OMSLAG: The confession of the fault, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1894 print Paris paper parts of church interior: chapel. female sex; woman. candle. one person praying

Balkans - Mostar - Turkish man at ritual prayer. 1907

Last moments of M gr. Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris.

The Bacchanalian's Prayer!! June 4, 1801 Thomas Rowlandson. The Bacchanalian's Prayer!!. Prayers and Journals. After George Murgatroyd Woodward (British, 1765-1809 London). June 4, 1801. Hand-colored etching. Prints

Puppet Show, China - Costumes & Occupations

Sexton dressed as demon, Holy Week in Quito, Ecuador, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 581, Volume XXIII, April 15, 1854.

A Money Changer in China, circa 1800

Illustration showing Saint CRISPIN AND CRISPINIAN, Christian martyr brothers: Martyred under Diocletian in 287 by being thrown into molten lead. Feast day 25 October: Patron Saint of SHOEMAKERS. Woodcut published London 1826

Pope Sixtus IV, (1414-1484), seated on a throne. He wears a bonnet and almuce in red wool trimmed with ermine, linen rochet, and a cassock of white wool. From a painting by Piero della Francesca in the Vatican. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from "Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries," Levy Fils, Paris, 1861.

Little Red Riding Hood knocks on grandmothers door, The London Stereoscopic Company, 1856.

Father Thiers by Paul Klenck (IT)

Christmas card, 'A Happy Christmas', circa 1900s, Whanganui, by A.D. Willis Ltd., Kennett Watkins.

Prayers & Journals, Woodward, Active 1801-1802, nationality unknown, 1801-1802, Etching, hand colored, Sheet: 16 x 10in. (40.6 x 25.4cm)

Vicar drawing moral reflections from a field of ripe wheat. Illustration by William Marshall Craig (c1765-c1834) for ''Reflections on the Works of God'', London, 1813.

London Masons meet in front of a board representing the many Lodges of Great Britain Date: circa 1730

A prophet was among them | Library of Congress

The High Priest of the Parsis (Parsees) - the Zoroastrians - performing a religious ceremony circa 1910s

Prayers & Journals, Woodward, Active 1801-1802, nationality unknown, 1801-1802, Etching, hand colored, Sheet: 16 x 10in. (40.6 x 25.4cm)

St Crispin and St Crispinian, Christian martyrs, 19th century. Artist: Anon

The Stock Jobber's Prayer!! August 1, 1801 Thomas Rowlandson. The Stock Jobber's Prayer!!. Prayers and Journals. After George Murgatroyd Woodward (British, 1765-1809 London). August 1, 1801. Hand-colored etching. Prints

French 19th century illustration of Saint Genevieve, (c. 419 AD - 512 AD); patron saint of Paris in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions.

Woodward, Active 1801-1802, nationality unknown, Prayers & Journals, 1801-1802. Etching, hand colored.

Saint Notburga (1265-1313) - miracle of the sickle. unknown, painter

INDIOS ANAPATIS Y MENEAOROS (PERU) - QUECHUA - GRABADO SIGLO XX.

American Revolution. 'Toscin of Liberty', illustrates the ringing of the bell of the Philadelphia State House to alert citizens on July 8, 1776 to the public reading of the United States Declaration of Independence. The iconic 'Liberty Bell' was one of the bells rung on that occasion (BSLOC_2019_4_59)

Woodward, Active 1801-1802, nationality unknown, Prayers & Journals, 1801-1802. Etching, hand colored.

Mask of Shu'laawi'si, Deputy to the Sun Father, Zuni nation. Chromolithograph by August Hoen from John Wesley Powell's 23rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1904.

Carlo Pellegrini, 1839-1889, Italian, Vanity Fair: Musicians; 'Prayer and Praise', Mr. D. L. Moody, April 3, 1875, 1875. Chromolithograph.

Sequoyah From "History of The Indian Tribes..", Vol. 1 Thomas Lorraine McKenney Newberry Library, Chicago

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