Title Page to John Weever, Ancient Funeral Monuments

About this work

This print shows two figures standing under a grand stone archway. On the left is a skeleton dressed in robes, holding a skull. On the right is a muscular, bearded man wrapped in a cloth. Above them, a long title in old-fashioned letters fills the center, listing names and places. Below, a small scene shows a church and a river with a bridge. The skeleton and the strong man might represent death and life, a common theme in old books. The print was made by cutting designs into metal and pressing ink through, a method called *engraving*. Look up engraving to see how artists like this made detailed prints.