Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Source Title:
The ambiguous confessor
Source Call Number:
ART 249539 (size M)
Digital Image File Name:
8116
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Title (Hamnet):
The ambiguous confessor [graphic].
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
[London?
Creator or Publisher (Hamnet):
s.n.,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
ca. 1650?]
Physical Description (Hamnet):
1 print : engraving ; platemark 348 x 277 mm.
Notes (Hamnet):
40 lines of verse inscribed in plate - two columns of four above image of the church and two columns of sixteen within the side chapel, on either side of the split. The left column seemingly corresponds with the position of the man on the left and the right column with the man on the right, although Malcolm Jones points out that the two columns can also be read across the divide as one 16-line poem, which changes the meaning significantly.
Notes (Hamnet):
Depicts the side chapel of a cathedral church, evidently intended to be Westminster Abbey, with a split down the middle of it and a divine on either side, one blatantly attacking the building with a pickaxe; the other, trowel in hand, is removing stones more subtly - or is he repairing it? The man on the left represents a Presbyterian and on the right an Independent. Marcus Nevitt suggests that the print may be a response to the Westminster Confession of Faith--Adapted from Jones.
Citations (Hamnet):
Jones, M. Print in early modern England, p. 88
Subject (Hamnet):
Cathedrals -- 17th century, depicted.
Subject (Hamnet):
Clergy -- 17th century, depicted.
Subject (Hamnet):
Prints -- 17th century.
Subject (Hamnet):
Social conflict -- Religious aspects -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800.
Call Number (Hamnet):
ART 249- 539 (size M)

The ambiguous confessor