Accession number
PML 145850.23
Published
[Amsterdam? : s.n., 1628]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Print published as an illustration for Dr. John Leighton's tract, "An Appeal To the Parliament, or, Sions Plea against the Prelacie" (Amsterdam?, 1628), where it appeared before the dedication page.
Mounted as item 23 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).
Captioned above: "Spreta cado"; with verses below reading: "Sics spreta Elanguent humani cuncta cerebri; Vt stabilis fugiant fcedera firma Dei: The tottering Prelats, with their trumpry all, Shall moulder downe, like Elder from the wall. Si ad divinse traditionis caput, Et originem revertamur, cessat Cyprian ad Omnis error humanus. pomp."
Library's copy imperfect; lower portion cropped with loss of text following line ending, "like Elder from the wall".
Print published as an illustration for Dr. John Leighton's tract, "An Appeal To the Parliament, or, Sions Plea against the Prelacie" (Amsterdam?, 1628), where it appeared before the dedication page.
Mounted as item 23 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).
Captioned above: "Spreta cado"; with verses below reading: "Sics spreta Elanguent humani cuncta cerebri; Vt stabilis fugiant fcedera firma Dei: The tottering Prelats, with their trumpry all, Shall moulder downe, like Elder from the wall. Si ad divinse traditionis caput, Et originem revertamur, cessat Cyprian ad Omnis error humanus. pomp."
Library's copy imperfect; lower portion cropped with loss of text following line ending, "like Elder from the wall".
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 103 x 106 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a ruined wall, with a single window in one of its sides, and, growing from behind, a large tree, from the boughs of which seven bishops fall headlong. Among them is a label. Behind, on our right, is the Ark, pitched upon Mount Zion, on one of the peaks of which is a flag; on the left is a windmill, a city (Jerusalem?), &c.
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