Wednesday, January 28, 2015

A Dream of John Ball

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Artwork by E. Burne-Jones, April 1888, for the first book edition of William Morris' A Dream of John Ball. Illustrates the couplet "When Adam delved and Eve span / Who was then the gentleman?" which had international popularity in several Germanic languages as an equalitarian slogan during the medieval period.

Edward Burne-Jones [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
John Ball

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