Accession number
PML 145850.175
Published
[London] : Printed for Isaac Cleave at ye Signe of ye Starr next to Searjeants Inn in Chancery Lane, [1678]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Plate from Anthony Egan's The book of rates, now used in the sin custom-house of the church of Rome (London : Isaac Cleave, 1678).
Another state of this engraving in the holdings of the British Museum shows the addition of a demon whispering into the Popes ear with a banderole reading, "our disignes in England are discovered therefore I come to give you advise you must not spare for indulgences", a rod in the priest's raised hand, and text within the image identifying the individual cardinals by name.
Inserted as item 175 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.
Plate from Anthony Egan's The book of rates, now used in the sin custom-house of the church of Rome (London : Isaac Cleave, 1678).
Another state of this engraving in the holdings of the British Museum shows the addition of a demon whispering into the Popes ear with a banderole reading, "our disignes in England are discovered therefore I come to give you advise you must not spare for indulgences", a rod in the priest's raised hand, and text within the image identifying the individual cardinals by name.
Inserted as item 175 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: 165 x 119 mm; sheet: 186 x 127 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the Pope surrounded by four cardinals and instructing a priest, "noe matter for conscience see you fill my coffers", as the priest hears a confession and tells the penitent kneeling before him "you must pay £50 for your absolution".
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