Accession number
PML 145850.70
Published
[England] : [publisher not identified], [16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Two small engravings in panorama format printed on the same sheet, each showing a series of scenes which together evidentally form a continuous sequence or pair of related sequences.
Both engravings show evidence of burnishing and alteration, with the upper print having a 5 x 83 mm section of the plate removed at lower left.
Mounted as item 70 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).
Two small engravings in panorama format printed on the same sheet, each showing a series of scenes which together evidentally form a continuous sequence or pair of related sequences.
Both engravings show evidence of burnishing and alteration, with the upper print having a 5 x 83 mm section of the plate removed at lower left.
Mounted as item 70 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 sheet (2 prints) : engraving ; image: 32 x 162 mm, upper plate; image: 45 x 177 mm, lower plate; sheet: 118 x 192 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in ink at upper right: Vol. 2d.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Two engravings evidently showing the progress of an individual's life from time as a student to parenthood. The top engraving shows, from left to right: Two figures approaching a doorway in a wall, with a courtyard and building beyond and the engraved words "Ab hoc" at far left, and "From Christ Hospitall wee came & thether wee returne againe", (below) "Dies Ascentionis"; a young man presenting a document to a man and woman who are seated in an arbor and saying, "This boy writes best reject the rest" and "This of the three best pleaseth mee", with (below) "Dn̄i Nri in caelis 1624"; a man in a prison yard beating hemp with a hammer, saying "In Bridwell house I did beate hemp for to confirme my time well spent", with (below) "Per hoc VI Junÿ 1643". Lower engraving shows: Death with an hourglass standing beside a woman accompanied by two children, gesturing upwards and saying "Looke up on high prepare to dye", with (below) "Obÿt 17 May 1639 Ab hoc"; a man and a woman strolling together, the man gesturing towards a hill at far right where a group of eight children are shown dancing in a ring, and saying to his companion "Behould our children yonder play in whom our fame shall live for ay", with (below) "July 24 1643 Ad hoc in Spem ante factam".
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