Print, book-illustration (BM 1972,U.51.9)
Summary
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
Engraving
Date
1588
Source
British Museum
Copyright info
Public Domain