72.1.34

Caricature of Gilbert Burnet

1675 – 1685 (Date created)
Ink
Etching
Prints
8.1102 in W x 11.063 in H (Image)
8.75 in W x 10.875 in H (Paper)
British
Satirical portrait of Gilbert Burnet, (18 September 1643-17 March 1715), Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. The clergyman is half-dressed as an Anglican, half as a puritan and standing at a pulpit and tub. On a table to the left, Roman Catholic accoutrements spill out of a bag near an hourglass. The Book of Common Prayer lies open before the pulpit.
In Collection
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.6.

https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9524 (4/23/2014)
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