Doth not Gods creation suffice thee but as if thou woldst [sic] exced [sic] him thou goest about to mend it. Chrisost: Hom: 4 in 1 ad Tim: [print] / T. Catlett sc.

Accession number: 
PML 145850.155
Author: 
Catlett, Thomas, engraver.
Published: 
London : Printed for J: Dunton at the black Raven in the Poultery, 1683.
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 117 x 187 mm; sheet: 142 x 190 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from item.
Caption text continues: ... At ye Resurrection thy maker will not ackowledge thee. August: Tom 10 ser: 247.
Print originally published as an engraved frontispiece in: Englands vanity, or, The voice of God against the monstrous sin of pride, in dress and apparel / by a Compassionate Conformist (London : Printed for J. Dunton, 1683).
Mounted as item 155 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 closely trimmed within plate mark.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Inscribed in ink at head of sheet with the word "Pride".

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows a queen seated with orb and sceptre, flanked by two courtiers, a man standing at left, and a woman standing at right; all three of the figures are sumptuously dress and coiffed and the faces of the two women are covered with beauty marks. Words emanating from above at upper left and right read, "Doth not even nature it selfe teach you &c." and "Depart from me I know you not".

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