Accession number
PML 145850.38
Published
[England? : s.n., 17--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Satire evidently inspired by religious and political controversies in England, probably dating from the early 18th or possibly the late 17th century.
Mounted as item 38 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).
Satire evidently inspired by religious and political controversies in England, probably dating from the early 18th or possibly the late 17th century.
Mounted as item 38 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: 267 x 184 mm; sheet: 283 x 200 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a coat of arms featuring a shield containing a double faced figure, half Catholic and half low church or Puritan clergyman accompanied by three inverted crowns, all above a block, ax, and severed head; the shield is flanked by a low churchman at left and a Turkish or Muslim man at right, and is surmounted by a cluster of serpents, some of them endowed with the heads kings, sultans, popes, clergymen, and cats. At top stands a lion holding a sword hoisting a clerical gown in one paw and a scale in the other. At the base of the image stands a devil in flames, blowing a cloud of smoke and demons upwards, flanked by a monstrous hydra at left and a gorgon at right.
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