print;
satirical print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.3211
- Title
- Object: Ventorum Ludibrium
- Description
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Anti-catholic satirical book-illustration in the form of two elements copied from BMSat 41: a tent in which the destruction of England is plotted by the Pope, a cardinal, the Devil, a Spanish grandee and a Jesuit seated at a table, and, below, the Spanish Armada shown as a horseshoe formation of ships with an English fire-ship in the centre. 1820
Etching
- Production date
- 1820
- Dimensions
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Height: 298 millimetres
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Width: 233 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The print was made as an illustration to a reprint of Samuel Clarke's "England's Remembrancer" (1679), published by George Smeeton in "Historical and Biographical Tracts", 1820.
See 1847,0723.11 for the source of the print, and further information.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Spanish Armada 1588
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.3211