BRB1279

Title

Subject

Description

In this broadside, 111 numbered woodcuts were "hieroglyphically displayed" in order to convey the meaning of the Ten Commandments, the Apostles Creed, and the Lords Prayer. An enumerated table of explanation appears below, in case a young reader fails to understand the pictorial substitutions.

Source

BRB1279. The Sacred Monitor, or Sponsors Present: Containing the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and the Lords Prayer, Hieroglyphically Displayed. London: Henry Fry for James Lee, 1796.

Relation

Broadsides

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

English

Type

Broadside

Collection

Welcome Additions

Citation

“BRB1279,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed June 5, 2026, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1627.