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And the Evil Spirit Invented Many Religions That There Should be None

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Alfred Crowquill

And the Evil Spirit Invented Many Religions That There Should be None

11 15/16 x 8 7/8 inches (302 x 225 mm); on sheet: 16 1/2 x 13 inches (420 x 330 mm)
Watercolor on paper.
1956.28:39

Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1956.

Notes
Drawing trimmed to a beveled arch at top and mounted on backing paper.
Signed "Alfred Crowquill" at lower right.
Inscriptions/Markings
Caption title in pencil on backing paper.
Summary

Watercolor shows the Devil seated with a broad-brimmed cardinal's hat on his lap, with small figures representing the world's religions seated around the brim, including a turbaned figure representing Islam, a druid with oak leaf crown and sickle, a sphinx, a quaker, etc.; the Devil holds two sparring figures on the crown of the hat, one of them the pope, the other wearing a horned mitre.

Associated names
Fales, DeCoursey, 1888-1966, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department