Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Take heed of an ox before of an ass behind of a friar on all sides [print] = Donnez vous garde du devant dun boeuf du derriere dun asne et de tous les costez dun moine.

Accession number
PML 145850.58
Published
[England? : s.n., 17--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Lettered below with parallel captions in English and French.
Mounted as item 58 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 : etching ; image: 165 x 273 mm; sheet: 186 x 303 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an ox, friar, and donkey, the first brandishing his horns at a barking dog at left, the second standing in the center of the composition with a knife in each hand, and the last kicking up its heels at right.
Classification
Department