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Christianity
Christian prints across the collection: Holy Land maps, Bible scenes, saints and the Madonna, popes and religious orders, churches, cathedrals and abbeys, from the Burgkmair-circle woodcut of about 1516 to German devotional chromolithographs of 1900.
797 prints
The Holy Land · MDCXLII
Blaeu Holy Land Map, Terra Sancta Palestina, Figural Cartouche, 1642
1642 · 59 × 50 cm£6,155
The Holy Land · MDCLVIII
1658 Large Map of the Holy Land by Jansson, Twelve Tribes of Israel in 6 Sheets
1658 · 47 × 71.5 cm£3,140
The Holy Land · MDCCII
Antique Map of the City of Jerusalem by N. Visscher, 1702
1702 · 68.5 × 53 cm£2,930
The Holy Land · MDCXXIX
Antique Blaeu Holy Land Map, Terra Sancta Palestina, 1629
1629 · 62.3 × 48.4 cm£2,930
Houses of Worship · MDCCCLXXIV
Pair of Chromolithographs of Bavarian Royal Chapel Objects, 1874
1874 · 66 × 48 cm£2,675
Houses of Worship · MDCCCLXXIV
Pair Bavarian Royal Chapel Altar Shrines Chromolithographs, Munich, 1874
1874 · 48 × 66 cm£2,460
Houses of Worship · MDCCCLXXIV
Pair Bavarian Royal Chapel Liturgical Objects Chromolithographs, Munich 1874
1874 · 48 × 66 cm£2,460
Houses of Worship · MDCCCLXXIV
Pair Bavarian Royal Chapel Decorative Objects Chromolithographs, Munich, 1874
1874 · 48 × 66 cm£2,290
Houses of Worship · MDCCXXX
Westminster Abbey Monuments, Five English Engravings after Gravelot c.1730
1730 · 38.7 × 52.5 cm£1,655
The Holy Land · MDCXCVI
Holy Land Map of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, Sanson, Hand Colored, 1696
1696 · 69 × 47.7 cm£1,615
Saints and Devotion · MDXVI
Saint Radegonde Exorcising a Demon, Burgkmair Circle, c.1516 Woodcut
1516 · 21 × 24 cm£1,520
The Holy Land · MDCCL
1750 Map of the Holy Land: The Land of Canaan and the Twelve Tribes
1750 · 66.5 × 52.3 cm£1,360
The Holy Land · MDCXXXII
1632 Decorative Map of the Holy Land, Insets of Jerusalem and Biblical Artefacts
1632 · 86.7 × 39.2 cm£1,360
Saints and Devotion · MDCCCLXXIV
Antique Chromolithograph Monstrance Reiche Kapelle Munich Sacred Object, 1874
1874 · 48 × 132 cm£1,265
Houses of Worship · MDCCLI
1751 Engraving of Roman Fountain and Church, Fountain of Moses and Santa Maria
1751 · 69.5 × 41.4 cm£1,220
Saints and Devotion
Bavarian Crucifixion Icon Chromolithograph, 19th Century, Signed
Date not stated · 48 × 66 cm£1,190
Saints and Devotion · MDCCCLXXIV
Sacred Splendor of the Reiche Kapelle Munich, Antique Chromolithograph, 1874
1874 · 48 × 66 cm£1,180
Saints and Devotion · MDCCCLXXIV
Antique Chromolithograph Deposition of Christ, Reiche Kapelle Munich, 1874
1874 · 48 × 66 cm£1,180
The Holy Land · MDCCVIII
Spectacular Antique Original Engraving of a Town Plan of Jerusalem, 1708
1708 · 52.3 × 43 cm£1,145
Saints and Devotion · MDCCXXX
Large Print of the Procession for the Papal Inauguration in Rome, Italy, c.1730
1730 · 93 × 39.7 cm£1,145
The Holy Land · MDCLXX
Frederic de Wit Map of Palestine, Terra Sancta, Amsterdam c.1670
1670 · 55.7 × 46 cm£1,070
Saints and Devotion · MDCCCLXXIII
Set of Three Renaissance Religious Ornament Chromolithographs by Racinet, 1873
1873 · 28.8 × 41.5 cm£1,060
Saints and Devotion · MDCCCLXXIII
Set of Three Renaissance Religious Ornament Chromolithographs by Racinet, 1873
1873 · 28.8 × 41.5 cm£1,060
Saints and Devotion
Set of 8 Antique Prints of Religious Figures and Turks in the Middle Ages
Date not stated · 38 × 25 cm£1,020
The Holy Land
Antique Map of the Holy Land, Showing the Location of the Various Tribes
Date not stated · 60.5 × 52 cm£1,020
The Holy Land · MDCCXX
Biblical Map and Family Trees of the Holy Land by Chatelain, ca. 1720
1720 · 63 × 55 cm£1,020
The Holy Land · MDCC
Antique Holy Land Map, Twelve Tribes of Israel, Covens & Mortier, c.1700
1700 · 47 × 40 cm£1,020
The Holy Land · MDCXX
Holy Land Map, Terra Sancta Palestina, Hondius, Hand-Colored Engraving c.1620
1620 · 49 × 34.5 cm£1,010
The Holy Land · MDCLVIII
17th Century Woodcut Map of Jerusalem from Abraham Saur’s Städte-Buch, 1658
1658 · 14 × 18.4 cm£1,010
The Holy Land · MDCCVIII
Rare Town Plan of Jerusalem, Includes an Extensive Key to Locations etc, 1708
1708 · 49.5 × 41.5 cm£975
The Holy Land · MDLXXXI
Rare 16th Century Holy Land Woodcut Map by Heinrich Bünting, circa 1581
1581 · 21.8 × 31.8 cm£975
The Holy Land · MDCCXLIII
Antique Bible Plan of Ancient Jerusalem, 1743
1743 · 54 × 39.5 cm£970
Houses of Worship · MCMXXVI
Le Mont Saint-Michel Original Etchings by Arthur Mayeur, Limited Edition 1926
1926 · 29 × 39 cm£960
The Holy Land · MDCCL
Antique French Map of the Holy Land, Twelve Tribes of Israel, c.1750
1750 · 68 × 51 cm£935
The Holy Land · MDCCCXVIII
Antique Map of Biblical Palestine, Holy Land & Jerusalem Insets, c.1818
1818 · 72.5 × 54.5 cm£935
Houses of Worship
Pl. 16 Antique Print of the Portal of the Zen Chapel of the Basilica San Marco
Date not stated · 56.5 × 71 cm£850
The Holy Land · MDCCXXXII
1732 Henri Chatelain Map of the Holy Land Divided Among the Tribes of Israel
1732 · 63 × 55 cm£840
The Holy Land · MDCCXLIV
Holy Land Map Palestine Homann Heirs, Hand Colored, c.1744
1744 · 63.8 × 54 cm£840
Saints and Devotion · MDCCCLXIX
Antique Print of Madonna with Her Child by Delange '1869'
1869 · 35 × 53 cm£805
Saints and Devotion · MDCCLXII
Scarce Plate of Saints Nilus and Bartholomew Kneeling for the Holy Virgin, 1762
1762 · 66 × 47 cm£805
Houses of Worship · MDCCLXII
Rare Copper Engraved Plate of Bartholomew the Apostle Building a Temple, 1762
1762 · 76 × 48.3 cm£805
Saints and Devotion · MDCCLXII
Scarce Engraved Plate Showing the Holy Virgin and the Archangel Gabriel, 1762
1762 · 66 × 46.5 cm£805
The Holy Land · MDCXXV
1625 Petrus Plancius / Cloppenburg Map of the Holy Land with Biblical Vignettes
1625 · 52 × 39 cm£805
The Holy Land · MDCCXX
1720 Bird's-Eye View of Jerusalem with Historical Tombs and Key Landmarks
1720 · 55 × 48.5 cm£805
Saints and Devotion · MDCCLXXIX
Original Antique Devotional Print of Christ of Guamantanga, Peru, 1779
1779 · 27.2 × 37.6 cm£755
The Holy Land
Antique Map of the Holy Land with Picture Frame Border
Date not stated · 43.2 × 29.6 cm£745
The Holy Land · MDCCLXVII
1767 D’Anville Map of the Holy Land: Ancient Divisions and Biblical Geography
1767 · 70.5 × 52.5 cm£745
Houses of Worship
Neoclassical Sanctum: De Neufforge's Ecclesiastical Engravings of a Church, 770
Date not stated · 26 × 40.5 cm£730
Christianity in print
Printing and the Christian image grew up together. The first European woodcuts were devotional sheets of saints, and for three centuries the Bible was one of the most illustrated books in Europe. Dutch publishers led the trade: Pieter Mortier's great Bible of about 1700 set two scenes to a plate, and Jan Luyken's designs filled the Bibles of 1743.
Here are the maps that let readers follow the Gospels, the Bible scenes themselves, devotional prints made for private prayer, the habits of the religious orders, and the churches, cathedrals and monasteries of Europe and of the Dutch overseas world.
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Questions
What makes a devotional print?
A devotional print was made to be prayed with rather than read: a saint, the Virgin or the crucified Christ, often small, sold cheaply and kept in a book or pinned to a wall. Later devotional chromolithographs did the same in colour, for the home.
Are the Bible prints from actual Bibles?
Most are. Mortier's and Luyken's plates were printed for illustrated Bibles and Bible picture books; others come from Bible histories, catechisms and print series of Bible scenes.