Accession number
PML 145850.205
Published
[London : s.n., 1698]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Caption continues: ... The stars are not to be Blamed, because the Astrologers are ignorant of their Influences; nor are the Herbs to be despised, because Phisitians know not ye virtue.
Engraving issued as a frontispiece illustration in B. Clayton's translation of Israel Hiebner's Mysterium Sigillorum, herbarum & lapidum" (London : Printed by W. Downing, 1698).
Inserted as item 205 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).
Caption continues: ... The stars are not to be Blamed, because the Astrologers are ignorant of their Influences; nor are the Herbs to be despised, because Phisitians know not ye virtue.
Engraving issued as a frontispiece illustration in B. Clayton's translation of Israel Hiebner's Mysterium Sigillorum, herbarum & lapidum" (London : Printed by W. Downing, 1698).
Inserted as item 205 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: 104 x 77 mm; plate mark: 140 x 85 mm; sheet: 145 x 93 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the figure of Mercury with winged cap and boots, holding a key and caduceus in either hand.
Classification
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