The ambiguous confessor [graphic].
1650
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library ART 249- 539
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Title
The ambiguous confessor [graphic].
Created/published
[London?] : [s.n.], [ca. 1650?]
Description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 348 x 277 mm
Material base
paper
Summary
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.
Note
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.
First lines of introductory verse: Kind Countrymen observe & heed him / For he e's according as ye read him
First lines of main verse (16-line reading): I heere deny The Covenant /The Luturgy I'le nere Recant.
First lines of main verse (32-line reading): I heere deny / The Luturgy.
Listed in Union First Line Index of English Verse.
First lines of introductory verse: Kind Countrymen observe & heed him / For he e's according as ye read him
First lines of main verse (16-line reading): I heere deny The Covenant /The Luturgy I'le nere Recant.
First lines of main verse (32-line reading): I heere deny / The Luturgy.
Listed in Union First Line Index of English Verse.
Cited/described in
Jones, M. Print in early modern England, p. 88
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library ART 249- 539
Genre/form
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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ART 249- 539 (size M)