AN EPITOME
OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY,
ENGRAVED BY AMOS DOOLITTLE

A remarkable—and mammoth—broadside chronological chart employing text and images to depict six millennia of ecclesiastical and secular history. The Epitome was designed by the Rev. David Sherman Rowland (1719–1794), who began his career as a minister in Providence, Rhode Island but was “forced to flee his pulpit there because of.....