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Sic Itur Ad Astra Scilicet (This is the way to the stars, of course)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Sic Itur Ad Astra Scilicet (This is the way to the stars, of course)
Description
English: A broadside satirising Father Petre and his amoral lifestyle; with an etching attributed to de Hooghe showing a palatial room, in the centre a dining table, laden with a peacock pie and other dishes, and various seated monks and clerics carousing, on the right Father Petre [no.1], one foot resting on a closed Bible, talking to a woman to his left representing Vanity [no.6], on his other side Envy holding a torch and eating a heart [no.17], a figure of Gluttony [no.10] placing a dish before an obese friar [no.2], in the background on the wall various scenes of Catholic misconduct; with engraved Latin title, inscriptions, and numbering 1-18, and with letterpress title and verses, including legend, in four columns. (n.p.:[1688])
Depicted people Representation of: Father Edward Petre
Date 1688
date QS:P571,+1688-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 313 millimetres (etching)
Height: 565 millimetres (printed area)
Width: 424 millimetres (etching)
Width: 424 millimetres (printed area)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1864,0813.273
Notes

Cf Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Stuart Britain', BM 1998, cat.208 (BMSat.1118). This satire is known in three versions, printed from three different plates. Two are almost identical to each other (BMSat 1118,1119), while the third is in reverse and found on a Dutch broadsheet (BMSat 1117). All three versions are similar in quality, and it is difficult to say that any one is a copy or piracy of another. Rather they all appear to be versions emanating from the same workshop, and stylistically one has no hesitation in ascribing the design to Romeyn de Hooghe. He probably etched the best of them himself (BMCat.1118), while the others were made by his assistants.

For another impression of the same broadside, see BM 1868-8-8-3368. Ref:

Landwehr, p.231 "arbitrarily attributed to Romeyn de Hooghe"
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1864-0813-273
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