File:Sic itur ad Astra Scilicet (This is the way to heaven, of course) (BM 1868,0808.3370).jpg
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[edit]Sic itur ad Astra Scilicet (This is the way to heaven, of course) ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
Sic itur ad Astra Scilicet (This is the way to heaven, of course) |
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Description |
English: Satire on Father Petre, who presides at a banquet with attendant Catholic clergy, devils and women; a contemporary version of BMSat.1118. 1688
Etching |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Father Edward Petre | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1688 date QS:P571,+1688-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.3370 |
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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. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3370 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Color space | sRGB |
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Date and time of digitizing | 16:07, 21 October 2008 |
File change date and time | 16:09, 21 October 2008 |
Date metadata was last modified | 16:09, 21 October 2008 |