The High Church champion pleading his own cause, or, The pope and the devil vanquish'd by a flurt from the doctors pen [graphic].

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Description

Title
The High Church champion pleading his own cause, or, The pope and the devil vanquish'd by a flurt from the doctors pen [graphic].
Alternative Title
Pope and the devil vanquish'd by a flurt from the doctors pen
Published / Created
[1709]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

Sacheverell sits at a table opposite a bishop wearing a mitre. He flicks his pen at a devil that flies to the left. The bookshelves on the wall behind them is filled with books. On the floor are a papal tiara and cope

Description
Engraved broadside; title from caption above image.
Publication date from another state in British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Ten lines of verse below image: I no such seconds* need to plead my cause ...
Cf. No. 1499 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Bowditch's manuscript annotations on the mounting sheet.
Mounted to 35 x 45 cm.
Provenance
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent
1 print : sheet 28 x 17 cm
Edition
[State without text in trumpet].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
709.00.00.04

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1709
Etchings England 1709
Annotations (Provenance)
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724
Subject (Topic)
Bishops
Devil
Writing materials
Bookcases
Subjects
Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bishops
Devil
Writing materials
Bookcases
England > 1709

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8899194
Object ID (OID)
10697409

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