Accession number
PML 145850.115
Published
[London : Printed by John Norton, 1634]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Woodcut frontispiece illustration removed from a copy of John Blaxton's The English usurer, or, Usury condemned (London : John Norton, 1634).
Mounted as item 115 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).
Woodcut frontispiece illustration removed from a copy of John Blaxton's The English usurer, or, Usury condemned (London : John Norton, 1634).
Mounted as item 115 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 : woodcut ; image: 116 x 129 mm; sheet: 160 x 135 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows English usurer sitting at his table, and grasping his money, with the devil perched on the back of his chair. He is saying, " I say I will haue all both Use & principall." Two pigs are in front of him; one is saying, " Mine is the usurers desire, To roote in earth, wallow in mire." The other is lying on its back, and saying " Living spare me, and Dead share me."
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