Accession number
PML 145850.238
Published
[England] : [s.n.], [16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Engraved caption text continues: Charles. We Rivals were till Crespy-peace was made and now we're constant Friends in Regions of ye Dead.
Inserted as item 166 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 cropped within platemark at foot.
Engraved caption text continues: Charles. We Rivals were till Crespy-peace was made and now we're constant Friends in Regions of ye Dead.
Inserted as item 166 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 cropped within platemark at foot.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 144 x 138 mm; sheet: 191 x 175 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the figures of Francis I and Charles V standing together in a garden, with a fountain visible in the background. Above them fly Father Time (left) and Hermes (right), the former saying "I consume all things & every moment I bring forth something new"; the latter holding out a paper which reads "To Charles V" to the outstretched hands of a man who stands in the background at far right.
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