In the foreground a man is shown nailed to a cross (center) and another (right) is tied to a stake and being eaten by two wild beasts (lions?). In the distance a man is being burned at the stake on the outskirts of a camp with tents; on the left a man is tossed off a cliff by soldiers
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson., Print created for John Beaver's Roman military punishments; used as headpiece for Chap. VI; see p. 64., On page 24 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 4.6 x 7.6 cm., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand: Precipitation, Crucifixion, Burning &c.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Beaver, John
Subject (Topic):
Crucifixions, Executions, Military camps, Roman, Punishment & torture, and Soldiers
Title, state, and date from Paulson., One of fourteen illustrations created for John Beaver's Roman military punishments; used as headpiece for Chap. XIII; see p. 109., Ms. note in Steevens's hand: Fustium admonitio., and On page 24 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 4.3 x 7.8 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Beaver, John, active 18th century.
Subject (Topic):
Beating, Punishment & torture, Soldiers, and Roman
"Satire on the professions of medicine, law and the church with three practitioners in a well furnished interior disputing which is the superior; each wears the dress of his profession. The lawyer holds a sealed document; the clergyman a book letterd "Bals. Soul" and the physicial a phial lettered, "Bals. Life". Pictures on the wall show, men rushing to separate two fighting dogs, men and women bringing tythes to a clergyman, and two doctors quarreling at a bedside. Verses below with scrolling calligraphic decoration."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from item., Publication date from from British Museum catalogue., and Sixteen lines of verse in two columns below title: Law, physick, and divinity, contend which shall superior be ...