Accession number
PML 145850.233
Published
[England? : s.n., 16--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Possibly a comment on the evils of the Thirty Years War.
Inserted as item 228 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 touching image.
Possibly a comment on the evils of the Thirty Years War.
Inserted as item 228 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 touching image.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 135 x 190 mm; sheet: 148 x 192 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Design in five oval compartments showing the miseries of war, famine, and pestilence, with a map of Germany (showing Nuremberg) and Poland ("Polonia") in the center compartment, each oval captioned with an appropriate Biblical verse, with four praying figures with banderoles containing words of prayer, the one at top reading, "How long O Lord, how long wilt thow hide thie face".
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