Accession number
PML 145850.207
Published
[England : s.n., 16--?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Woodcut illustration from an edition of Marnix van St Aldegonde's The beehive of the Romish Church.
Inserted as item 207 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).
Woodcut illustration from an edition of Marnix van St Aldegonde's The beehive of the Romish Church.
Inserted as item 207 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 print : woodcut ; image: 109 x 153 mm; sheet: 122 x 165 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a beehive in the shape of a papal tiara, with the Pope enthroned at its center and surrounded by bishops, cardinals, monks, etc. in bee-form, busily performing their various religious offices, such as performing mass, shriving the dead, etc.
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