"Keterlein" and "Marthin Luther"
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"Keterlein" and "Marthin Luther"
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sheet: 453 x 181 mm
Peel 0006
Published:
[15--]-[16--]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Watermark: unknown.
Summary:
Satirical print showing Martin Luther, accompanied by his wife, holding a chalice and pushing wheelbarrow which supports his protruding stomach and is laden with books and three figures identified as "Johann Calvin", "Martin Bucerus", and "Philip Melancthon"; he carries a wooden box on his box in which he carries several additional Protestant reformers, all identified in a numbered column at far right; his wife walks behind him with a large barrel on her back, a baby in her arms, and a small dog on a leash; two angels flank a book at upper left, and below four devils carry four Protestant leaders to the mouth of Hell, as four saints stand over them with scourges.
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