Object types
satirical print (scope note | all objects)
print (scope note | all objects)
broadside (scope note | all objects)
Materials
paper (all objects)
Techniques
etching (scope note | all objects)
Production person
Print made by Wenceslaus Hollar (biographical details | all objects)
Date
1640 (circa)
Schools /Styles
British (all objects)
Description
Satire on the Laudian Canons: on the right, three bishops who have been tentatively identified by Stephens as Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely, Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham, John Williams, Archbishop of York, and on far side three other men who may be intended as Puritans standing next to Laud, who fires the cannon, the barrel of which explodes as it fires a cannonball labelled 'oath'. c.1640
Etching
Inscriptions
Inscription Content: Lettered with text above image: "This Canon's seal'd, well forg'd, not made of lead / Give fire, O noe, 't will breake and strike vs dead". Below nine lines "That I, A. B. doe sweare that I doe approve... in Iesus Christ". Verses below in twelve lines: "Prime, lay the Trayne, thus you must mount and levell... which had we kept, we had not now beene falling".
Dimensions
Height: 259 millimetres
Width: 210 millimetres
Height: 122 millimetres (image)
Width: 210 millimetres (image)
Curator's comments
A. Griffiths and G. Kesnerova, 'Wenceslaus Hollar: Prints and Drawings from the collections of the National Gallery, Prague, and the British Museum, London', 1983, no. 66.
Subject
cleric (scope note | all objects)
arms/armour (all objects)
Associated names
Representation of Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham (biographical details | all objects)
Representation of Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely (biographical details | all objects)
Representation of John Williams, Archbishop of York (biographical details | all objects)
Representation of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (biographical details | all objects)
Acquisition date
1893
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