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Ecclesia Perversa tenet faciem Diaboli ... [print].

Accession number
PML 145850.193
Published
[Netherlands? : s.n., 16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Inserted as item 193 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).
For a description of another version of this design, with the accompanying verses in English, see: Stephens, F.G. Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, no. 1230.
Library's copy partially trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 116 x 245 mm; sheet: 200 x 300 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two reversible heads of the Pope and the Devil and a Cardinal and a Fool with verses in Dutch on all sides and motto titles in Latin.
Classification
Department