Accession number
PML 145850.103
Published
[London? : s.n., ca. 1710].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Satirical print inspired by the trial of Henry Sacheverell.
Mounted as item 103 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).
Satirical print inspired by the trial of Henry Sacheverell.
Mounted as item 103 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).
Description
1 print : engraving ; plate mark: 212 x 161 mm; sheet: 248 x 197 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an oval portrait of Doctor Henry Secheverell at center, with a padlock on his mouth; in the upper left and right hand corners are small medallion portraits in profile, labeled: "Young Mr. Takker" (left) and "Old Mr. Le Grand" (right). In the lower corners are two medallion scenes, "Ye fox preaching to ye geese" (left) and "Ye cat & monkey takeing chesnuts out ye fire". Two small panels along the foot of the print show a scene of rioters in the street, with the caption "Mobb making of bon fires" (left) and the public burning of Secheverell's sermons, with caption, "Ye hangman making bon fires."
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