Accession number
PML 145850.26
Published
[London? : s.n., 16--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Plate is an illustration evidently removed from an unidentified publication.
Mounted as item 26 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner J. Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Plate is an illustration evidently removed from an unidentified publication.
Mounted as item 26 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner J. Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : etching ; 130 x 81 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the leading figures of Hell seated in a cavern with King Death standing before them in the foreground; the figures are labeled within the image, with text at bottom of the plate reading, "To front ye 110 page of ye first booke".
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