Accession number
PML 145850.203
Creator
Hondus, Jacobus, engraver.
Published
[London : Gabriell Simson and William White, 1588?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Engraved plate from a copy of Hugh Broughton's A concent of scripture (London : Gabriell Simson and William White, 1588?), facing F4 verso.
Inserted as item 203 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 torn along right margin, with some loss to ornamental border; trimmed within plate mark.
Engraved plate from a copy of Hugh Broughton's A concent of scripture (London : Gabriell Simson and William White, 1588?), facing F4 verso.
Inserted as item 203 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 torn along right margin, with some loss to ornamental border; trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 140 x 92 mm; sheet: 150 x 100 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the Whore of Babylon as a bare breasted woman seated astride a seven-headed beast and wearing a papal tiara; she surmounts the seven hills of Rome, accompanied by a dragon at left and a goat and scorpion at right, and holds aloft a cup, with a banderole over her reading, "Babylon ye mother of filthy fornicatio[n]".
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