Accession number
PML 145850.129
Creator
Westerhout, Arnold van, 1651-1725, engraver.
Published
[London : s.n., ca. 1688
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Engraved illustration from John Michael Wright's An account of His Excellence, Roger Earl of Castlemaine's embassy from His Sacred Majesty James IId, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. to His Holiness Innocent XI (London : Printed by Tho. Snowden for the Author, 1688), following p. [65].
Mounted as item 129 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).
Engraved illustration from John Michael Wright's An account of His Excellence, Roger Earl of Castlemaine's embassy from His Sacred Majesty James IId, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. to His Holiness Innocent XI (London : Printed by Tho. Snowden for the Author, 1688), following p. [65].
Mounted as item 129 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: 175 x 120 mm; plate mark: 200 x 130 mm; sheet: 262 x 187 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a sculpture representing the arms of King James II above the figures of Time and the church who are shown over a sun breaking through clouds, with the defeated body of a hydra and the fleeing figures of Fraud and Discord at the base.
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