Genre: Allegorical prints England 1788 - Yale University Library Search Results

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker
Published / Created:: May 1, 1788.
Call Number:: Kinnaird 90K(d) Box 130
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Sin interposes herself between Satan on the left and his son Death on the right to stop them attacking each other, revealing their relation to each other, with a portcullis gate in upper right, attached by a chain in the foreground; copy of a print by Charles Townley after a design by Hogarth."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Satan, sin and death
Description:: Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Published as the act directs, by Messrs Moulton & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall
Subject (Topic):: Deadly sins, Death, and Devil
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Satan, sin & death Paradise Lost book II. From a print engrav'd by C. Townley in 1767 of which only three impressions were taken. One of which is in the collection of Saml. Ireland by whom this etching is made in 1788; the original picture by Hogarth was left unfinished in the possession of the late Mr. Garrick. [graphic]