Accession number
PML 145850.50
Published
[London : s.n., 1656]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Illustration from The great sins of drunkeness and gluttony set forth in the proper colours (London : Printed by T.C. and are to be sold by T. Crosse, in Py-corner, in Green-dragon-court,1656).
With appropriate Biblical quotations in the lower margins.
Engraving with two designs in two panels, the one at left entitled, "Drunkardes picture and his doome by scripture"; the one at left, "A belly god".
Mounted as item 50 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 and mounted on paper backing.
Illustration from The great sins of drunkeness and gluttony set forth in the proper colours (London : Printed by T.C. and are to be sold by T. Crosse, in Py-corner, in Green-dragon-court,1656).
With appropriate Biblical quotations in the lower margins.
Engraving with two designs in two panels, the one at left entitled, "Drunkardes picture and his doome by scripture"; the one at left, "A belly god".
Mounted as item 50 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 and mounted on paper backing.
Description
1 print : engraving ; 109 x 196 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Design in panel at left shows the seated figure of Bacchus swilling wine; at right, a glutton wearing an apron stands in a kitchen surrounded by meat, a dish in his hands.
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