Sic itur ad astra scilicet,Bawdy House,Edward Petre,Deadly Sins,Catholicism,1705

Title: Sic itur ad astra scilicet / William Loggan f. & Oxonia, anno 1681.
Creator(s): Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708, artist
Date Created/Published: 1681.
Summary: Print shows scene in a bawdy house of pleasure frequented by Father Petre and other Jesuits where they mingle and dine with such figures as: Wantonness, Avarice, Sloth, Fury, and Vanity. Priests engage in lascivious acts and steal money from a dying person, a Protestant minister is driven away from the door, a fox delivers a sermon from a pulpit, and Jesuits help themselves to treasures in India.
Notes:
Title from item.
Attributed to Romeyn de Hooghe after William Loggan.
For related descriptive dialogue between Eusebius and Simplicius, with key to numbered figures (unnumbered in this print): see PC 1 - 1117 (C size).
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1, no. 1118
Library has two impressions, an early and a later state, both cropped within plate mark.
Forms part of: British Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Petre, Edward,--1631-1699.
Deadly sins--1680-1690.
Catholicism--Great Britain--1680-1690.
Clergy--Great Britain--1680-1690.
Etchings--1680-1690.
Satires (Visual works)--Dutch--1680-1690.
Bookmark /2006681093/
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