[Frontispiece to "The rule and exercises of holy living"] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Frontispiece to "The rule and exercises of holy living"] [graphic].
Creator: Lombart, Pierre, 1612-1682, printmaker
Published / Created: [1651?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "An engraving, which represents a clergyman (? Jeremy Taylor) showing to a lady (? Lady Carberry) a mirror, in which she is reflected as a skeleton; by her side is a child, who points to the mirror; and behind her stands an old man, lifting up his hands in astonishment. On the table, which sustains the mirror, is written "Fades natiuitatis suae, James 5. 23"; and on a scroll on the ground, "Vigilate et Orate quia nescitis horam"."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title and printmaker from the British Museum catalogue.
Publication place and date inferred from other states described in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Cf. No. 821 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1.
Later annotations in an unidentified hand on verso, partially trimmed off and covered by mounting sheet.
Window mounted to 23 x 14 cm.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 13 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1651
Frontispieces
Engravings England London 1651
Etchings England London 1651
Annotations (Provenance)
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Mirrors
Clergy
Skeletons
Children
Older people
Subjects: Mirrors
Clergy
Skeletons
Children
Older people
England > 1651
England > London > 1651

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