Accession number
PML 145850.139
Creator
Marshall, William, active 1617-1650.
Published
[England? : s.n., 1650]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
No. 4 of a series of 6 emblem prints engraved by William Marshall after "I.P.", with the first plate of the set dated 1650; the set identified by Daly and Silcox (see below) as the prints advertised in as "Six emblems, W. Marshall sculpt." in a 1662 broadside issued by London printseller Peter Stent.
Caption text continues: Rending his entralls with his Fanged teeth / Gripte thus he Smiles, as if none ill betide him, / But from his Torture thus He cannot hide him. ...
Mounted as item 139 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).
No. 4 of a series of 6 emblem prints engraved by William Marshall after "I.P.", with the first plate of the set dated 1650; the set identified by Daly and Silcox (see below) as the prints advertised in as "Six emblems, W. Marshall sculpt." in a 1662 broadside issued by London printseller Peter Stent.
Caption text continues: Rending his entralls with his Fanged teeth / Gripte thus he Smiles, as if none ill betide him, / But from his Torture thus He cannot hide him. ...
Mounted as item 139 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 ; circular image: 124 x 124 mm; plate mark: 132 x 125 mm; sheet: 142 x 133 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Circular emblematic design showing the Spartan boy with the fox partially concealed under his cloak, with text in a banner above and below image.
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