Accession number
PML 145850.91
Published
[London] : Printed for Rich. Chiswell in St Pauls Church yard, [between 1679]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from caption.
Frontispiece plate from Timothy Puller's The moderation of the church of england (London : Printed by J.M. for Richard Chiswell, 1679).
Mounted as item 91 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 plate from Timothy Puller's The moderation of the church of england (London : Printed by J.M. for Richard Chiswell, 1679).
Mounted as item 91 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 ; image: 149 x 94 mm; sheet: 157 x 105 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a seated female figure, with a church on her head, holding a scroll inscribed "Moderation", with figures on the left and right representing religious extremes; below, bishops in a cave, with a procession of wolves walking behind them and emerging at right clad in sheepskins.
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