Accession number
PML 145850.8
Creator
Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, engraver.
Published
[London] : Sold by Ar Tooker Stationer and Picture Seller in the Strand, [ca. 1675]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Fagan, who attributes the engraving to William Faithorne; after Abraham van Diepenbeeck.
Engraving of Sisyphus employed as a satire against landlords, with fourteen lines of verse below, in two columns of seven lines each, beginning "Old Nick the Landlord having let a toft ..."
Mounted as item 8 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner J. Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Engraving of Sisyphus employed as a satire against landlords, with fourteen lines of verse below, in two columns of seven lines each, beginning "Old Nick the Landlord having let a toft ..."
Mounted as item 8 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner J. Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 292 x 232 mm; sheet: 346 x 245 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Sisyphus attempting to push the rock up slope, while being tormented by demons; scenes of torture and punishment in the background.
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