Accession number
PML 145850.184
Creator
Anonymous, British school, 16th century.
Published
16th century?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Drawing reproducing the satirical coat of arms illustrating William Roy's printed verse satire against Cardinal Wolsey (Rede me and be nott wrothe, for I saye no thynge but trothe. Worms? : s.n., 1526), with the first six lines of Roy's poem transcribed above and below the design.
Mounted as item 184 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).
Drawing reproducing the satirical coat of arms illustrating William Roy's printed verse satire against Cardinal Wolsey (Rede me and be nott wrothe, for I saye no thynge but trothe. Worms? : s.n., 1526), with the first six lines of Roy's poem transcribed above and below the design.
Mounted as item 184 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 drawing.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Satirical coat of arms, flanked by dragons and surmounted by a club and a cardinal's hat, with a shield charged with bulls' heads and ax heads, with a dog in the center.
Classification
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