Call Number: 775.00.00.26 - Yale University Library Search Results

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Published / Created:: [1775?]
Call Number:: 775.00.00.26
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Depicts two bearded figures in classical attire (possibly Tragedy and Comedy), the former leaning on a tomb while the latter gestures laughingly at a cracked and broken globe on which the countries of France, Canada and Great Britain are identified. A satyr (the Devil), stands holding his scythe before the globe, whence from the broken area of Great Britain emerges a procession of persons mounted on hobby horses, including royalty, clergy, and a man carrying a ship model and bags of money. Time flies above, lifting the curtain on the scene, while a putto with a bubble-pipe flies towards the globe. Within the bubble is a representation of Fortune. On the ground a monkey accosts an owl, while to the right an open scroll proclaims "Life is a jest," a possible reference to John Gay's Epitaph
Alternative Title:: Life is a jest
Description:: Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet cropped within plate mark., and Mounted to 20 x 14 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Social conditions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Folly of the times] [graphic].