Descent into Hell

Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
 After Hans Holbein the Younger German

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Plate 15. Descent into Hell; Christ carrying an episcopal cross, entering the doorway to Purgatory with papal arms in a niche above, met by the Devil, wearing a pope's mitre; other figures include Adam, Eve and Moses at right; after a follower of Hans Holbein.

Descent into Hell, Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London), Etching, only state

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