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--?]
Description: 
1 print : etching ; image: 165 x 273 mm; sheet: 186 x 303 mm
Credit: 
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).

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.

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