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This ghostly impression is the only surviving evidence of the printing of an indulgence issued by William Caxton. This is not a true impression, but rather a trial print on the last page of an entirely unrelated book. The woodcut was set with letterpress, then the whole was daubed with a brown substance, and a trial impression taken on a blank leaf of a book printed in Antwerp, presumably lying around in Caxton\u2019s printing house awaiting sale. Multiple impressions would subsequently have been taken using printer\u2019s ink and clean paper, but none of these survive.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "[Image of pity]" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "CUL" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Paper" }, { "label": "Publisher", "value": "William Caxton" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Inc.5.F.6.3[3409]" }, { "label": "Note(s)", "value": "Depicts Christ with the Cross behind, flanked by the instruments of the passion in 18 compartments.; Text reads (transcription from Bradshaw): To them that before this ymage of pyte deuowtely say .v. Pr̃ nr̃ v. Aueys & a Credo. pyteously beholdyng these armes of xp̄s passiō ar- graūted xxij. M. vij.C & .lv. yeres of pardon.; Survives in a trial impression on final blank page of: Jacobus de Gruytrode. Colloquium peccatoris et crucifixi Jesu Christi. [Antwerp : Mathias van der Goes, between 14 Feb. 1487 and 21 May 1490] (Oates 3948)." }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Jesus Christ -- -- Passion -- Art; Indulgences" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Caxton, William approximately 1422-1491 or 1492" }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Catholic Church" }, { "label": "Alternative Title(s)", "value": "Indulgence (Image of pity); To them that before this ymage of pyte deuowtely say .v. Pr̃ nr̃; To them that before this ymage of pyte devowtely say V Pater noster" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "
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