A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical (1881)
Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864, Jackson, John, 1801-1848, Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884 · New York : J. W. Bouton · leaf 113
e degreecompensated by giving to his hip the likeness of a fiendish face. In twoor three other old wood engravings I have noticed a repulsive face indi-cated in a similar manner on the hip of the Devil. A person wellacquainted with the superstitions of the fourteenth and fifteenth cen-turies may… … The cut on the following page (90), which forms the compartment tothe right, represents Adam and Eve, each with an apple: and the statein which Eve appears to be, is in accordance with an opinion maintainedby several of the schoolmen of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.The tree of knowledge is…
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