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Pilgrim dreaming he is discarding armor under ax held by woman – Vintage Wall Art

Pilgrim dreaming he is discarding armor under ax held by woman — historic print
Pilgrim dreaming he is discarding armor under ax held by woman. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Pilgrim dreaming he is discarding armor under ax held by woman. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A pilgrim dreams he is shedding his armor while a woman holds an ax over him, an unusually dramatic moment for a woodcut. The image comes from Guillaume de Deguilleville's *Le Pélerinage de vie humaine*, a 14th-century French allegorical poem about the soul's journey through life, here in a Dutch edition printed by Jacob Bellaert at Haarlem in 1486. Woodcuts like this helped early readers follow such allegories, and the discarded armor fits the poem's larger theme of giving up worldly burdens.

Medium1 print : woodcut.
Notes1486
SubjectsIllus. in: Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pélerinage de vie humaine, Dutch; Haarlem, Jacob Bellaert, 20 Aug. 1486. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Life of man; Coats of arms; Incunabula; RBD; BI--WORKS; Eagles; Dreams; Women--Rights; Armor; Shelf. 14th C. Lit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,127 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133920

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