The mysterious calendar / taken from the original above 30 years ...

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The mysterious calendar / taken from the original above 30 years ...
engraving
image: 6 11/16 x 8 13/16 inches (170 x 224 mm); sheet: 16 1/16 x 9 7/8 inches (408 x 251 mm)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1210
Published: 
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1704]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Engraved title, text, and calendar.
"By Hader Camber Bazer High Preist & Primier Minister to the most Illustrious Prince Pretegianni"--At bottom of sheet.

Summary: 

Satire on Charles II and James II, likening them to the Biblical brothers Huz and Buz, with a perpetual table for finding the dates of Sundays using Dominical letters. An engraving in an oval, showing the brothers standing in a rural landscape. On the left Huz, representing Charles II, standing on a cornucopia wearing a suit of armour, with a large Scottish thistle on his head, holding in his right hand a sword piercing a Tudor rose, in his left hand a fleur-de-lis, surmounted by an owl wearing the papal tiara; behind him stands a devil or satyr playing an Irish harp. On the right Buz, representing James II, standing on the scales of justice and a paper representing the national covenant which he pierces with a sword; with his right hand he drops a Bible into a fire; three crowns fall from his head on to an orange tree, representing William III.

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