Hooghe, Romeyn de. Sic itur ad astra scilicet

British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum (1870-1954) (George): 1118
Folger bibliographic ID: 222643
Griffiths, A. Print in Stuart Britain, 1603-1689: 208
Landwehr, J. Romeyn de Hooghe the etcher: p. 231
Folger call number: ART 267- 887
Folger holdings ID: 252708
Accession Number: 267887

Anti-Catholic satire against Edward Petre. Petre and a group of Jesuits are shown in a bawdy house of pleasure where they mingle and dine with figures representing Vanity, Envy, Gluttony, Wantonness, Fury, Avarice, and Sloth. Petre rests his foot on a large bible and holds a mask between himself and the rest of the scene and turns towards Vanity; Fury drives a Protestant minister away from the door. Tapestries in the background show priests packing up treasures in India and animals performing priestly duties (ape and fox annointing a sick man, a wolf in a confessional, a fox delivering a sermon from a pulpit)

General notes

Title from item False signature and date in lower left: William Loggan f. & Oxoniae Anno 1681 The British Museum dates the print to 1688. Landwehr dates it 1689, when Hooghe was active in Haarlem, and adds it to the section: Prints arbitrarily attributed to Romeyn de Hooghe Acquired from Schulman, 2009-04-14 Also available as a digital reproduction

Item information about Folger ART 267- 887

Adopted by Bob and Andy Dodds, Acquisitions Night 2014

Petre, Edward, 1631-1699 Deadly sins Catholicism Clergy

artist: Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708
depiction: Petre, Edward, 1631-1699
associated name: Loggan, William