Accession number
PML 145850.135
Published
[England : s.n., 1711?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Text continues below caption title: I, John Bradshaw have led a lewd and wicked Life, and have abused my Body by committing the filthy sin of Fornication and Incontinence with Elizabeth Hall-Cartwright, Elizabeth Coats, and other women, and have been a notorious Drunkard and addicted to Cursing and Swearing, and Prophaner of the Lord's Day. ...
Mounted as item 135 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).
Text continues below caption title: I, John Bradshaw have led a lewd and wicked Life, and have abused my Body by committing the filthy sin of Fornication and Incontinence with Elizabeth Hall-Cartwright, Elizabeth Coats, and other women, and have been a notorious Drunkard and addicted to Cursing and Swearing, and Prophaner of the Lord's Day. ...
Mounted as item 135 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 : etching ; image: 147 x 186 mm; platemark: 150 x 191 mm, sheet: 162 x 205 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Library's copy has ms. note in ink following text: This was thus performd abt 4th month 1711.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the figure of John Bradshaw draped in a sheet with a rod or wand held up in his left hand, flanked by two men in wigs and waistcoats.
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