Accession number
PML 145850.128
Published
[London : s.n., 16--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Woodcut illustration removed from an unidentified publication.
Mounted as item 128 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).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
Woodcut illustration removed from an unidentified publication.
Mounted as item 128 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).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : woodcut ; 184 x 145 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in ink: Samuel Malbon His Book.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a scene of salvation and damnation, with the redeemed accosted by devils as they scale a mountain to Heaven at left, and the damned in Hell at lower right, with lines above their heads, "My precious hours of life I have thrown away / But now time's gone, 'tis too late to pray". At middle right, three men are shown carousing at a table, one of whom vomits copiously as a devil holds his head; above them, a woman is clinging to a rope held by one of the ascending souls left who says to her, "Come Whore, do not delay / save you Tide, and pull away".
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