Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Woman upon the Many-Headed Beast
A crowned woman holding a cup sits above the heads of a great beast. Small figures and architectural details extend beneath the fantastic mount. The source presents the frontispiece as an anti-Catholic interpretation of imagery from Revelation, making its religious polemic central to the scene.
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Illustrator not identified. "The Woman upon the Many-Headed Beast" [editorial title]. In The Great Red Dragon; or, The Master-Key to Popery, Anthony Gavin. Forty-fifth thousand, 1854, Samuel Jones. Source scan leaf 8. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0224-0002
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
The source is a historical anti-Catholic polemic. The illustration records its visual rhetoric and is not evidence that the events occurred as represented.
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Illustrator not identified. The Woman upon the Many-Headed Beast. The Great Red Dragon; or, The Master-Key to Popery. Scan leaf 8. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0224-0002