Accession number
PML 145850.34
Published
[S.l. : s.n., 1714]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Mounted as item 34 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).
Mounted as item 34 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).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 142 x 160 mm; sheet: 156 x 175 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a group of four figures representing the various religious denominations and labeled, "Sacerdos Calvinianus", "Sacerdos Lutheranus", "Sacerdos Romanus", and "Sacerdos Graecus", pulling on ropes around a tethered and blindfolded female figure; between them stand four kings with swords raised to sever the ropes, as a sword and trumpet emerge from the clouds above.
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