Portfolio: Politics


  1. Hans Holbein, The Selling of Indulgences, 16th c. Woodcut, 3 1/4 × 10 5/8 in. (8.3 × 27 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, 36.77.
  2. Jacques Callot, The Hanging from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War, 1633. Etching, 8.1 x 18.6 cm platemark; 12.5 x 22.2 cm sheet (irreg.).  Museum of New South Wales, DO10.1963.11.
  3. Frans Hogenberg, St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Engraving. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, RESERVE FOL-QB-201 (7).
  4. Frans Hogenberg, The Spanish Fury in Antwerp: death in the streets, 1576, 1588. Etching, 268 mm x 365 mm. Rijksmuseum, RP-P-2009-765
  5. Jean Jacques Perrissin and Jacques Tortorel, The Massacre of Tours, July 1562. Engraving. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, RESERVE FOL-QB-201 (5).
  6. Anonymous, The order and maner of the burning of Anne Askew, 16th c. Woodcut and letterpress, 140 x 193 mm. The British Museum, 1880,1113.4117.
  7. The Burning of John Cranmer From John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, 1563. Woodcut, British Library, C.37.h.2.
  8. Anonymous, Illustration from Thomas More’s Utopia, 1516. Woodcut. British Library, C.27.b.30.
  9. Anonymous English artist, The Queen of Hearts cover’d with diamonds, ca. 1786. Etching, plate 14.4 x 11 cm, on sheet 19.6 x 13.9 cm. Library of Congress, PC 1 – 6978 (A size) [P&P]
  10. Hans Sebald Beham, Aerial panorama of the city of Vienna at the time of the First Turkish Siege in 1529, ca. 1529. Woodcut with hand color. Vienna Museum.
  11. Hans Sebald Beham, Suleiman the Magnificent, ca. 1530. Woodcut, watercolor and letterpress, 300 x 210 mm. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, MB 2010/2 A (PK).