Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Pope Washing the Pilgrims’ Feet
A seated cleric bends towards the bare foot of a pilgrim while other men wait nearby. Heavy drapery and the gathered witnesses make the act a formal ceremony. The source captions the scene as the Pope washing the feet of pilgrim priests.
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Illustrator not identified. "The Pope Washing the Pilgrims’ Feet" [editorial title]. In The Great Red Dragon; or, The Master-Key to Popery, Anthony Gavin. Forty-fifth thousand, 1854, Samuel Jones. Source scan leaf 297. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0224-0289
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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 Pope Washing the Pilgrims’ Feet. The Great Red Dragon; or, The Master-Key to Popery. Scan leaf 297. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0224-0289