Frontispiece
from: Illustrations from The Revelation of St John the Divine

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales / Estate of Blair Hughes-Stanton. Courtesy: School of Art Collection, Aberystwyth University larger image

1932 Illustrated book printed by the Gregynog Press of the Book of Revelation. Includes full page illustrations and smaller illustrations incorporated into the text, most with specific biblical references. technique: relief printing artist: Blair Hughes-Stanton publisher: Gregynog Press Copyright: Estate of Blair Hughes-Stanton School of Art Collection, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion  (ObjectID=802ImageID=1481) Original File Name=_MG_3513.jpg

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• a pregnant woman, clothed with the sun and standing on the moon, appears; she is threatened by a red dragon with a long tail and seven heads  [Revelation 12:1]
• adoration of the Lamb on Mount Sion by the 144-thousand - Apocalypse  [Revelation 14:1-5]
• an angel shows John the New (Heavenly) Jerusalem coming down from heaven; sometimes Christ is shown leading his lambs to the city  [Revelation 21:]
• Christ between seven golden candlesticks appears to John, who falls to the ground; a sword comes out of Christ's mouth and he holds seven stars in his hands - the Apocalypse  [Revelation 1:12-20]
• God on his throne, surrounded by the twenty-four elders (wearing crowns and playing harps) and the four Beasts  [Revelation 4:]
• John's letter to Thyatira  [Revelation 2:18-29]
• Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon and his followers; the dragon (Devil, Satan) is cast out of heaven  [Revelation 12:7-9]
• opening of the first seal: the man on the white horse with crown, bow and arrow (Victory)  [Revelation 6:1-2]
• the mighty angel with the little open book in his hands: he is wrapped in a cloud; his legs are pillars of fire, which stand one on land and one in the sea - Apocalypse  [Revelation 10:1-2]
• the scarlet woman, the whore of Babylon; she is usually sitting on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns  [Revelation 17:3-4]
• the seven angels with trumpets - Revelation of John  [Revelation 8-10:]
• the two witnesses of God (Enoch and Elijah) - the Apocalypse  [Revelation 11:3-6]

Christopher Rowland, 'Images of the Apocalypse:Blair Hughes-Stanton (1902-81) and John Hancock (1899-1918)' in Martin O'Kane and John Morgan-Guy (eds) Biblical Art from Wales (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. pp. 155-169.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales / Estate of Blair Hughes-Stanton. Courtesy: School of Art Collection, Aberystwyth University