Accession number
PML 145850.83
Published
[England : s.n., 1683]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Frontispiece plate from James Salgado's The slaughter house, or, A brief description of the Spanish Inquisition in a method never before used ... (London : Printed for William Marshall, 1683).
Mounted as item 83 in 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).
Frontispiece plate from James Salgado's The slaughter house, or, A brief description of the Spanish Inquisition in a method never before used ... (London : Printed for William Marshall, 1683).
Mounted as item 83 in 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).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 145 x 185 mm; sheet: 150 x 187 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print divided into five compartments, with the left half of the plate showing a public trial of the Inquisition, with the condemned prisoner standing in peaked hat before the Tribunal of the Inquisition, secretary, and bishop and governor of the city; the right half of the plate divided into four captioned compartments, showing: a prisoner subject to the strappado, reading, "As they Give Torments."; three men being burned at the stake, reading "Those that are Condemned to be Burnt."; four doors with triple locks, labeled "The Inquisition Prison."; a shackled prisoner lying on a bed of straw, labeled, "One Chain'd in the Prison."
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