Accession number
PML 145850.174
Published
[England : s.n., 16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Satire attacking Louis XIV and impugning the honor of his mother and the legitimacy of his birth.
Caption verses continue: Oh the Arts to prop a Throne, and rayse a King! / So got! so born! let Fools be so uncivill / To ask if thou wert given of God, or Devill / Of God too sure: for Hell wee must beleive [sic] / A Greater than Hell had, could never give / Thus plagues, the Bolts by Heavens Comission hurld, / Are Deodats like Thee to scourge the World.
Inserted as item 174 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 in some places within platemark.
Satire attacking Louis XIV and impugning the honor of his mother and the legitimacy of his birth.
Caption verses continue: Oh the Arts to prop a Throne, and rayse a King! / So got! so born! let Fools be so uncivill / To ask if thou wert given of God, or Devill / Of God too sure: for Hell wee must beleive [sic] / A Greater than Hell had, could never give / Thus plagues, the Bolts by Heavens Comission hurld, / Are Deodats like Thee to scourge the World.
Inserted as item 174 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 in some places within platemark.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 153 x 117 mm; sheet: 194 x 129 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print in two panels, the top showing a woman (presumably Anne of Austria) embracing a young man in a bedchamber, as a cardinal (Richelieu?) retreats from the room at right and the king stands at upper left in the balcony of a window overlooking the room, hiding his face with one hand; below, the presentation or baptism (?) of the infant Louis XIV, with a woman entering the church and approaching the altar with the baby, who is labeled "Deodat", in her arms, flanked by two bishops.
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