This is to acquaint the curious : that at the Ship-Tavern in Greenwich and for some time will be presented by the old artist John Harris, who has had the honour to show before K. William and Q. Mary, Q. Anne and Prince George. An admirable piece of art, call'd The scene of Paradise, or, The creation of the world ...

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Advertisement for a Biblical spectacle or tableaux; illustrated with a woodcut of Dives in Hell and Lazarus in Heaven on the lap of Abraham at head of sheet.
Continues: Which piece of Work has been twenty years in making, being now compleatly Accomplish'd and all entirely New, the Figures being 4 foot high, and this the first time of its being shown. And tho Entertainments upon this Subject may have been seen before, and even Perfom'd some time since by this very Artist, nevertheless the Publick are desired to be inform'd that this present Entertainment is so infinitely superior, and so much more costly than all former Attempts of this Kind, that there is not the least part or particle of the former figures or scenes used in this more Magnificent piece of Labour and Art, not to be exposed to Publick Fairs. ...
Mounted as item 59 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).