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The Art and Mystery of Printing Emblematically Displayed   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The Art and Mystery of Printing Emblematically Displayed
Description
English: Satirical illustration of a printing house in three parts, from the Grub Street Journal, No. 147, 26 October 1732; all those portrayed have the heads of animals. On the left, a compositor with the head of an ass stands "at case" setting up type, behind him a form of the Grub Street Journal lies on a desk. In the centre a group of printers work at a press, one with the head of a greyhound wearing a wig kicks a form of the Craftsman, a copy of Fog's Journal lies on the press, the master-printer, Janus faced, looks on, an owl is perched on top of the press and a devil stands behind. On the right, a devil is hanging printed sheets on lines stretched across a room; at the end of his stick is a sheet lettered, "Cases of Impotency" and on the lines sheets from political, official and obscene publications: Applebee's Journal, Read's Journal, the London Journal, the Universal Spectator, the Weekly Register ("1 1/2d"), Onania, Rochester's Poems, the Manual of Devotion and the Session Paper; a pile of copies of the Free Briton rests on a stool, and a bundle of the Examiner on the floor; the devil treads on the Hyp Doctor.
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Depicted people Representation of: Devil
Date 1732
date QS:P571,+1732-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 112 millimetres (trimmed to image)
Width: 221 millimetres (trimmed to image)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.10094
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10094
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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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