Accession number
PML 145850.206
Creator
Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, engraver.
Published
[London : s.n., 1662
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Satire on Hugh Peters as a corrupt cleric.
Engraving by William Faithorne issued as a frontispiece plate in Sir John Birkenhead's Assembly-man (London : Printed for Richard Marriot, 1662).
Inserted as item 206 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).
Satire on Hugh Peters as a corrupt cleric.
Engraving by William Faithorne issued as a frontispiece plate in Sir John Birkenhead's Assembly-man (London : Printed for Richard Marriot, 1662).
Inserted as item 206 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 : engraving ; image: 160 x 123 mm; plate mark: 164 x 130 mm; sheet: 188 x 139 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a full length portrait of Peters standing at left on four large volumes labelled, "Councils", "Fathers", "Com. Prayer" and "Casuists". He draws towards himself with a rope labelled "Iure Divino" four large money bags with lettering referring to his alleged sources of income, labelled "Interest Money", "Citizens Good Wives", "Sequestered Benefices", "Lecture", "4s. per diem"; under these is a label reading ""Congregationall" on a table is a bundle of documents lettered "Articles against Delinquents"; on a shelf above further large volumes lettered, "Directory", "Concordance", "Geneua Notes", "Ordinances, Votes, Diurnalls", a label beside them lettered "Classical".
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