The considerations of Drexelius upon eternity
A 1689 London edition of Jeremias Drexel's Jesuit meditations on eternity, Englished by Ralph Winterton and printed for Richard Chiswell, aimed at Protestant and Catholic readers alike as a devotional emblem book. Small copperplate emblems, heavily hatched and framed, show kneeling penitents, arches of skulls, serpents and flames, winged souls, putti with hourglasses, and a writing skeleton, with engraved caption lines beneath \u2014 usable as compact mortality motifs, dense line-shading textures, and figure-in-niche compositions.
