Religious Illustrations and Engravings

A series of historical illustrations depicting biblical narratives, scholars, and devotional scenes, offering a glimpse into religious art from various centuries.

1610s 1600s 1612 NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN CHIEF POWHATAN SITTING IN STATE IN LONGHOUSE IN WEROWOCOMOCO IN VIRGINIA COLONY
1610s 1600s 1612 NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN CHIEF POWHATAN SITTING IN STATE IN LONGHOUSE IN WEROWOCOMOCO IN VIRGINIA COLONY
145 assets in this story
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Figure incarcerated in tomb (circle) with soul and spirit leaving (two boy-headed birds) and absorbing the black crow. In body are salt, sulphur & mercury. From Stolcius 'Viridarium Chymicum', 1624. Woodcut.
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Historical print from the 19th century, from a manuscript dating from the 15th century, Christ freeing the patriarchs, prose-Merlin of the redemption story of Perceval
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NOE. PATRIARCA BIBLICO. " EL ARCA DE NOE ". GRABADO DEL SIGLO XV.
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Liturgical devices of the Middle Ages, on the left above a reliquary, on the left below a curva, curvature or curvatura of a bishop's crozier, on the right above and below a process, liborium, Germany, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known, Europe
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The nuns are preparing to go to matins, The wind is blowing, The moon rises, God knows everything, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1845.
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Colored woodcut from around 1490-1500, showing the four ages of Christianity with explanatory inscriptions and symbolic figures.
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Headpiece with the phrase: Jesters do oft prove prophets. Illustrated by Louis Davis (1860-1941) an English Water-colourist, book illustrator and stained-glass artist. Dated 19th century
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Engraving depicting the Aztec Sun God Huitzilopochtli. Dated 17th century
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A medieval missionary finds a place where the Earth touches Heaven. Date: Medieval
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'Death and the Jew', an episode from the Dance of Death, 1441, (1870). Artist: Unknown
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Digitally restored, Die Geburt des Antichristen oder Falschen Messias, Illustration aus, Der Entchrist, Holzschnitt von 1475, Veroeffentlichung aus dem Jahr 1882, Digitally improved:, The Birth of the Antichrist or False Messiah, illustration from, The Entchrist, woodcut of 1475, publication from the year 1882
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Devil worship illustration From the book The Freemason by Eugen Lennhoff published 1932
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Daughter murdering her parents, Mexico, with the encouragement of two devils. Date: circa 1900
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The Boxer Rebellion, also known as Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement, was a proto-nationalist movement by the Righteous Harmony Society in China between 1898 and 1901, opposing foreign imperialism and Christianity. The uprising took place in response to foreign spheres of influence in China, with grievances ranging from opium traders, political invasion, economic manipulation, to missionary evangelism. In China, popular sentiment remained resistant to foreign influences, and anger rose over the 'unequal treaties', which the weak Qing state could not resist. Concerns grew that missionaries and Chinese Christians could use this decline to their advantage, appropriating lands and property of unwilling Chinese peasants to give to the church. This sentiment resulted in violent revolts against foreign interests.
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The Golden Bull of Clement VII. confirming Henry VIII. in the title of Defender of the Faith, 1860. 'The title...which forms a part of the Royal style of British Sovereigns, was originally bestowed upon Henry VIII. in 1521, by Pope Leo X., in requital of that monarch's celebrated "Defence of the Seven Sacraments " against Martin Luther...The apostolical confirmation of Leo's rescript to which the seal is affixed is now in our Public Record Office, and forms one of its most valued treasures. It was granted by Leo's successor, Pope Clement Vll., in 1524, and in the exaggerated praises
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History of Prophet Moses, Moses and Aaron, c. 1550, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an 18th or 19th century original.
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Thor riding in chariot drawn by goats and wielding his hammer. Artist: Unknown
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SAINT BRENDAN Irish religious and traveller who starred in a popular legend in which he encountered a giant whale Date: 484 - 577
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Tailpiece depicting an angel guarding a child from evil. Dated 19th century
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San Luis IX (1214-1270), rey de Francia. Estampita popular de 1877.
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An aspergillum, a liturgical device used for sprinkling holy water. An aspergillum is a vessel that contains holy water, Historic, digital reproductio...
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South American Indians harvesting wild fruit, 16th. illustration.
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Pat Waing with chopsticks, Burma, Myanmar. Southeast Asia. Travel to the kingdom of Ava, 1855 by Colonel Sir Henry Yule (1820-1889) Le Tour du Monde 1860
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Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: P-S, rs-yz.
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Medal with an emblem and the names of the Keurvorsten of Trier. Design of a round of medal with, in six concentric circles, the names of the Keurvorsten of Trier and their government years, starting at Archbishop Diether van Nassau and ending at Johan Hugo of Orsbeck. In the middle of the medal an emblem with a young man statue. The motto of the emblem reads: "Imperii finium tutor strenus".
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Kumbakonam or Coombaconum, in Tamil Nadu, India, during the 1890s, vintage engraving. Old engraved illustration of xxxxx.
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Ring settlement of the Avars, The Avars, Avars, were rulers of a steppe empire centred on the Pannonian Plain in the early Middle Ages, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown
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Aztec Goldsmiths, illustration from Mexican Florentine Codex by Shagun, Mexican Art
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The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al-sihha ('Maintenance of Health'), an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butln was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He sets forth the six elements necessary to maintain daily health: food and drink, air and the environment, activity and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions and excretions of humours, changes or states of mind (happiness, anger, shame, etc). According to Ibn Butln, illnesses are the result of changes in the balance of some of these elements, therefore he recommended a life in harmony with nature in order to maintain or recover one’s health. Ibn Butln also teaches us to enjoy each season of the year, the consequences of each type of climate, wind and snow. He points out the importance of spiritual wellbeing and mentions, for example, the benefits of listening to music, dancing or ha
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Tarot Card 19 - Le Soleil (The Sun).
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Juggernaut (also spelled Jagannatha) is, according to Hindu mythology, a form of the god Vishnu's incarnation as Krishna.
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Old votive offerings in the cloister around the Shrine of Our Lady of Altoetting, Altoetting, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
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A rosary, a medallion of St Benedict, a charm said to cause loss of eyesight, and hands showing lines and features to be interpreted by palmistry (including lines forecasting violent death); all illustrating 'superstition'. Engraving.
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Badge or vignette round in circles, with radiant eye, red cap level and joined hands (TF)
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Tarot Card 15 - Le Diable (The Devil).
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Torture, Punishment, Punishment, A Chinese man hangs from a rope attached to a wooden structure and leans on a bamboo stick held by two Chinese men in blue clothing, c. 1810, China, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Asia
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Symbols of the Four Evangelists, Martin Schongauer, c. 1470 - 1491 print An eagle with a banderole between the legs, symbol of the evangelist Johannes. This print is part of a series of four round prints with the evangelist symbols. Germany paper engraving eagle (possibly with book) ~ symbol of St. John
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During his voyage to the promised land of saints, Brendan and his companions celebrate mass on the back of a good-natured whale Date: circa 565
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MOLOCH, the god of the Ammonites, an Asian people chronically at war with the Israelites who allege that parents sacrifice their children in its furnace-belly
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The Three Children in the Fiiery Furnace, from the Catacombs. The story of three Holy Children cast into a fire by King Nebuchadnezzar is told in the Book of Daniel, Chapter 3. Engraving from Lives of the Saints by Sabin Baring-Gould.
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Catalunya. Fiestas y tradiciones populares. Día de Corpus. Baile del huevo. L'ou com balla. Tradición consistente en poner un huevo en lo alto de una fuente de agua y que mantenga el equilibrio. Grabado coloreado del siglo XIX.
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Europe. Medieval music. Pipe organ. Engraving, 19th century. Color.
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Gong in a Chinese temple Date: circa 1870
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REPRESENTACION DE UN CORCOVADO - CULTURA NAZARITA.
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Obverse (reverse) side of National Seal of the United States, a pyramid with all seeing eye of providence - Novus Ordo Seclorum