Accession number
PML 145850.66
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1731]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Caption verses continue: And Tully's Eloquence directs his Pen. Bids him his wonted Energy retain, And still the Cause of Liberty maintain. While Virtue thus, --since for my sake engaged, Thou a just War, hast with Corruption waged. Thy full Reward, in Glory then receive, And Long as Cic'ro, let the Craftsman Live.
The seventh engraving in a published series of seven engravings, published in London in 1731 and printed on a single sheet, with the title "Robins reign or Seven's the main : being an explanation of Caleb D'anvers's seven Egyptian Hieroglyphicks prefixed to the seven volumnes [sic] of the Craftsman. Iacta est alea"; the designs later copied and issued as frontispiece plates for volumes 1-7 of Caleb D'Anvers's "The craftsman". This is a copy of the original engraving, evidently excised from the larger sheet, with the bookcase in the background of the design rendered without cross-hatching.
Mounted as item 66 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).
Library's copy is torn, with loss to lower corners.
Caption verses continue: And Tully's Eloquence directs his Pen. Bids him his wonted Energy retain, And still the Cause of Liberty maintain. While Virtue thus, --since for my sake engaged, Thou a just War, hast with Corruption waged. Thy full Reward, in Glory then receive, And Long as Cic'ro, let the Craftsman Live.
The seventh engraving in a published series of seven engravings, published in London in 1731 and printed on a single sheet, with the title "Robins reign or Seven's the main : being an explanation of Caleb D'anvers's seven Egyptian Hieroglyphicks prefixed to the seven volumnes [sic] of the Craftsman. Iacta est alea"; the designs later copied and issued as frontispiece plates for volumes 1-7 of Caleb D'Anvers's "The craftsman". This is a copy of the original engraving, evidently excised from the larger sheet, with the bookcase in the background of the design rendered without cross-hatching.
Mounted as item 66 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).
Library's copy is torn, with loss to lower corners.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 120 x 73 mm; sheet: 159 x 75 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in ink at upper right: Vol. 2d.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Engraving shows "Caleb D'Anvers" (Nicholas Amhurst) seated at his table in front of a bookcase, and having before him a scroll on which is inscribed "The Spirit of Liberty", receiving a pen from Liberty, who throws away a broken yoke. Opposite to him stands Britannia exhorting the champion to continue his labours.
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