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A HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING.
| Elijah Raiseth the Widow’s Son (1 K. xvii.). | The Raising of Lazarus (Jno. xi.). | Elisha Raiseth the Widow’s Son (2 K. iv.). |
Fig. 5.—From the original in the possession of Professor Norton, of Cambridge.
above and below are two half-length representations of holy men. Various texts are interspersed in the field, and Latin verses are written below the central compartments. It will be seen that the designs not only served to illustrate the preacher’s lesson, but suggested his subject, and indicated and directed the course of his sermon: they taught him before they taught the people.
But, before commenting on this volume, it will be useful to describe first the much more interesting and more famous Speculum Humanæ Salvationis,[1] or Mirror of Human Sal-
- ↑ “Speculum Humanæ Salvationis.” Le Plus Ancien Monument de la Xylographie et de la Typographie réunies. Reproduit en fac-simile, avec introduction Historique et Bibliographique, par J. Ph. Berjeau. Londres, 1861.
