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Christ on the Donkey, the Pope on Horseback
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Christ on the Donkey, the Pope on Horseback. A comparison between the humility of Christ and the pride of the Pope. Captions below the cut and worked plate of two sets of two columns, with five and four lines respectively, and 50 numbered differences between Christ and the Pope in Dutch on the sheet. Satirical print on the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, utilizing an original sixteenth-century image motif.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineChristus op de ezel, de paus te paard. 1758. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
