File:The diabolical maskquerade, or the dragons-feast as acted by the Hell-Fire-Club, at Somerset House in the Strand. (BM 1868,0808.3510).jpg

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The diabolical maskquerade, or the dragons-feast as acted by the Hell-Fire-Club, at Somerset House in the Strand.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The diabolical maskquerade, or the dragons-feast as acted by the Hell-Fire-Club, at Somerset House in the Strand.
Description
English: A satire on debauched societies called Hell-Fire Clubs at a time when the Privy Council was trying to suppress them. A scene in an arcaded loggia with fully clothed men and partially clothed women carousing round a table on which are dishes of fruit and a flagon. Several of the revellers are in masquerade costumes, all wear masks, many of which are heads of animals, including a lion and a bear; two are dressed as devils and two as Pluto and Proserpine (the former wearing spectacles) sit on a dais to right, a grotesque dragon (a statue or similar prop) on a ledge above. Behind, a colonnade open to an ornamental garden.with topiary hedges.
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Date circa 1721
date QS:P571,+1721-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 176 millimetres (cropped)
Width: 202 millimetres (cropped)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.3510
Notes On 28 April 1721 the Privy Council issued an order for the suppression of blasphemous societies, known as Hell-Fire Clubs. Stephens mentions three in particular, which met at Somerset House, in Westminster and in Conduit Street.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3510
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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