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A complaint of the false prophets mariner upon the drying up of their hierarchical Euphrates [print] / Io: Droeshout sculp.

Accession number
PML 145850.118
Creator
Droeshout, John, -1652, engraver.
Published
London : Printed by T. Payne and to be sold by H. Blunden, 1641.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption below image reads: If they who slew the Monsters of the Age ... Of Charles from Charles great Brittains Charles ye great.
Engraved t.p. removed from a copy of Jean de la Marche, A complaint of the false prophets mariner upon the drying up of their hierarchical Euphrates (London : Printed by T. Payne and to be sold by H. Blunden, 1641).
Library's copy closely trimmed with some loss to text and image.
Mounted as item 118 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 : engraving ; 179 x 137 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a map of the Holy Land, with two church figures standing in the background.
Classification
Department