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Ink, acrylics and watercolour on paper, 56 x 42 cm

Denis Forkas Kostromitin - Devil Receives the King’s Soul, 2012

Acrylics on paper mounted on hardboard, 26 x 25 cm

Denis Forkas Kostromitin - Mythological sketches (Theseus). 2012

Acrylics and shell gold on paper mounted on masonite, 73 x 31 cm

Depiction of the pope as antichrist? A half-human and half-bird creature wearing a triple crown and seated on a throne; in frontal view; illustration to an unidentified Latin edition of Sebastian Münster, ‘Cosmographia’, probably printed by Petri in Basel, c.1544-52. Print made by: Conrad Schnitt 1544-1552 woodcut 60 mm x 53 mm British Museum

"The baptism of the Antichrist; the Antichrist wearing a papal tiara, surrounded by a group of devils dressed as monks and nuns. With grotesque ornamental border and two cartouches with letterpress title and verse. Woodcut and letterpress.

The Devil and a male witch - Francesco Maria Guazzo. Compendium Maleficarum 1610

Albrecht Dürer - Flamboyant Woman at the Mirror (1498) aka the Devil and the Coquette, copy of an illustration from ‘Der Ritter von Turm’, Augsburg

Hell’s mouth, detail from The coronation of the Virgin - Hans Franck; Printed by: Matthias Hupfuff 1510 - 1514 woodcut Printed in: Strasbourg 192 mm x 135 mm British Museum

Woodcut Matthias Gerung, 1520-1560.

Devil taking the soul of a dying man, woodcut, 1508

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Aunt Jemima Pancakes ad, 1938 (via Vintage-Ads)