Print, book-illustration (BM 1972,U.51.9)

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Print, book-illustration (BM 1972,U.51.9)

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The crimes of the Huguenots in France; two Huguenots pouring boiling oil into a holed box with a man inside on the left; four other Huguenots trying to put a Catholic into a bowl of boiling oil; another three Huguenots are pulling out a womans teeth in the centre; in the background Huguenots are firing muskets at a monk; Latin letterpress on verso; illustration to an edition of the "Theatrum Crudelitatum Haereticorum Nostri Temporis" (Richard Verstegen: 1588). 1588
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1588
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