Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Flagellation of a Prince
A bare-chested man kneels or bends before a group of clerics in an ornate interior. Raised hands, robes and ceremonial objects organise the scene around him. The source caption describes a prince being flagellated by Roman clergy in the thirteenth century; the image belongs to the book’s anti-Catholic historical argument.
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Citation
Illustrator not identified. "The Flagellation of a Prince" [editorial title]. In The Great Red Dragon; or, The Master-Key to Popery, Anthony Gavin. Forty-fifth thousand, 1854, Samuel Jones. Source scan leaf 20. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0224-0014
Source details
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 Flagellation of a Prince. The Great Red Dragon; or, The Master-Key to Popery. Scan leaf 20. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0224-0014