Accession number
PML 145850.90
Published
[England : s.n., ca. 1688]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from caption.
Satire on the defeat of Catholicism in England by William III in 1688 revolution; possibly created some time in the second decade of the 18th century to commemorate the accession of George I. Cf. BM online catalog.
Lettered below the image with the title and four lines of verse: See see the Rescuer Albions Gen'rous Friend ... The Harlot & the Beast destroy'd ye Spouse set free.
Mounted as item 90 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).
Satire on the defeat of Catholicism in England by William III in 1688 revolution; possibly created some time in the second decade of the 18th century to commemorate the accession of George I. Cf. BM online catalog.
Lettered below the image with the title and four lines of verse: See see the Rescuer Albions Gen'rous Friend ... The Harlot & the Beast destroy'd ye Spouse set free.
Mounted as item 90 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: 202 x 189 mm; sheet: 228 x 192 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows William III, as a Roman soldier, preventing the Pope from stabbing the shackled figure of Albion with a sword. She sits on a wheel resting on a gibbet; at her feet lie a sword, a dead child, fetters, a chalice, a birch and a scourge; to the left, the seven-headed beast of Rome lies on its back attacked by an angel with a sword. Figures of Fame, Valour, Justice, Plenty, Peace and Hope identified by their emblems are seated in the clouds.
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