XJF135362 A Present for a Papist, or the Life and Death of Pope Joan, 1675 (engraving) by English School, (17th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: According to a legend first noticed in medieval European chronicles of the 13th century, Pope Joan was a female pope who reigned as Pope c.1100 and gave birth to a son while out riding on horseback; the story is now considered fictitious; this illustration forms part of an English 17th century anti-Catholic propaganda pamphlet published in London and describing Rome as \'The Whore of Babylon\'; ); English, out of copyright.