A British Janus [print] : Anglicè a timeserver.

Accession number: 
PML 145850.30
Published: 
[England] : [s.n.], [1709]
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 280 x 167 mm; plate mark: 286 x 174 mm; sheet: 320 x 208 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Publication date from Stephens.
Engraved illustrated broadside with engraved title and verses in two columns below.
The verse begins: Since moderation is so much in vogue ...
Mounted as item 30 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).

Variant Title: 

First line: Since moderation is so much in vogue

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

A broadside satirising High/Low Church disputes, with an engraving showing a Janus figure preaching, the left half showing a bishop in a pulpit, the right half a puritan in a tub.

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