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The great fire of London [print].

Accession number
PML 145850.227
Published
[England? : s.n., 17--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Illustration removed from an unidentified publication.
Inserted as item 228 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: 119 x 78 mm; sheet: 155 x 101 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Illustration in two panels, the top showing the Pope seated at a table, surrounded by bishops and cardinals, presumably plotting the burning of London; below, the city in flames.
Classification
Department