Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer is represented in this archive by a single woodcut illustration, the title page of his 1548 Cathechismus, a short instruction in the Christian religion. The sheet places him in the world of sixteenth-century English reformist publishing, where woodcut served as the practical medium for doctrinal texts meant for wide circulation. Beyond that one impression, the collection holds no further examples of his work, so the entry documents a narrow but specific point of contact between Cranmer and the printed book. The date range given by the Met covers 1548, with impressions up to that year.
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