Icones historiarvm Veteris Testamenti : ad viuum expressae, extremàque diligentia emendatiores factae : Gallicis in expositione homoeoteleutis, ac versuum ordinibus (qui priùs turbati, ac impares) suo numero restitutis
A 1547 Lyon printing of Holbein's woodcut series of Old Testament scenes, issued by Jean Frellon with Gilles Corrozet's French verses for a reading public. The four prints show close-hatched woodcut scenes of a seated king receiving a kneeling messenger, a bound figure before a fire, a soldier with a severed head beside a pillared hall, and a crowd of spear-carrying men confronting a robed figure. Their dense parallel hatching, clear figure groupings and architectural framing offer a designer a model for narrative line-art built from fine black strokes.
