Accession number
PML 145850.214
Published
In Venetia : Ad instanza di Giusto Sadeler, 1620.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated broadside with five columns of verse in Italian.
Mounted as item 214 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).
Broadside illustrated at head of sheet with an engraving of the Last Judgment (176 x 292 mm), showing a dead man arising in his coffin at left, while a second man stands at the brink of Hell at far right, his hands clasped in an attitude of prayer as a demon tugs upon a chain wrapped around his middle; above, Christ sits enthroned in the clouds, surrounded by angels, and in the center below him stands a belfry on top of an open crypt filled with skulls. The engraving is signed at lower left, "Frid: Sustr: figur.", at center, "Cu privel: Sac. caes M.", at lower right, "Joã Sadeler Scalpsit."
Mounted as item 214 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).
Broadside illustrated at head of sheet with an engraving of the Last Judgment (176 x 292 mm), showing a dead man arising in his coffin at left, while a second man stands at the brink of Hell at far right, his hands clasped in an attitude of prayer as a demon tugs upon a chain wrapped around his middle; above, Christ sits enthroned in the clouds, surrounded by angels, and in the center below him stands a belfry on top of an open crypt filled with skulls. The engraving is signed at lower left, "Frid: Sustr: figur.", at center, "Cu privel: Sac. caes M.", at lower right, "Joã Sadeler Scalpsit."
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (engraving) ; 41 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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