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
Alternative Title:
Pope and the devil vanquish'd by a flurt from the doctors pen
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., and Mounted to 35 x 45 cm.
