Tyndale translating the Bible

Title: Tyndale translating the Bible
Actual Title: Tyndale translating the Bible into English
Artist: Alexander Johnston
Type: oil on canvas
Size (HxW, mm): 305 x 253
Current Exhibition Location: Private collection
Lent By: Mrs. Dillon
Catalog Number: 94
Catalog Page: 14
Catalog Description: Tyndale lived for a time with a London alderman, and studied most part of the day at his book, and "would eat but sodden meat by his good will, and drink but small single beer." The book at which he studied was the Bible. But the translation of the Bible into English was not to be done in England, and to avoid persecution Tyndale had to fly to Germany. He finished teh New Testament there in 1525, and in 1526 six thousand copies of the New Testament in English were sent over to England.