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English: From the British Museum: Title-page to Hobbes's 'Leviathan' (London: Andrew Cooke, 1651): an allegory of governance and the nature of civil and ecclesiastical authority. A crowned man whose body is made of numerous human bodies, emerges from a mountain at the foot of which is a city, holding a sword in his right hand and a crozier in in left hand; below is the title inscribed on a tapestry and surrounded by ten framed allegories: castle, crown, cannon, military trophies, battle on the left, church, bishop mitre, thunder, inscribed trident and forks, and assembly of magistrates;. 1651
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Abraham Bosse  (–1676)  wikidata:Q326215 s:it:Autore:Abraham Bosse
 
Abraham Bosse
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A. Bosse; Bosse Abrah.; Bossee; [Abraham Bosse]
Description French printmaker, etcher, painter, drawer, copper engraver and writer
Date of birth/death circa / 1602 Edit this at Wikidata 16 February 1676 / 14 February 1676 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Tours Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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The frontispiece engraving to Thomas Hobbes's book Leviathan, designed by Abraham Bosse

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