Accession number
PML 145850.117
Published
[London] : For Edward Vize at ye Bishops Head over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, [1684]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption below image reads: If they who slew the Monsters of the Age ... Of Charles from Charles great Brittains Charles ye great.
Frontispiece illustration removed from a copy of Edward Pettit's Visions of Government (London : Edward Vise, 1684).
Library's copy closely trimmed with some loss to text and image.
Mounted as item 117 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).
Frontispiece illustration removed from a copy of Edward Pettit's Visions of Government (London : Edward Vise, 1684).
Library's copy closely trimmed with some loss to text and image.
Mounted as item 117 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 : engravings ; image: 135 x 100 mm; sheet: 172 x 104 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Charles II, in armor, stepping on the back of a three-headed monster wearing headgear associated at the time with Muslims, Jesuits, and Presbyterians, with the fleur-de-lys of France on the monster's side. The king extends his right hand to accept a fiery sword offered by an angel in heaven; at the left stands the figure of Britannia or Minerva.
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