A sinful courtier in Whitehall is compared to a toad and found to be the more loathsome of the two. Engraving, 16--.

Date:
[1670?-1736?]
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39064i
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The Banqueting House, Whitehall, is labelled "The sinners seat". Below, right, hell is depicted as a man-eating monster. Above left, heaven is shown as a cloud with righteous men

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[London] (At the Globe and Compasses at the west end of St. Paules church) : Rob. Walton ; [London (now sold in Bow Church Yard)] : [William Dicey], [1670?-1736?]

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 18.9 x 32 cm

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A toad better than a sinner. Heaven; the sinners seat; hell. What more loathsome can be to mortal eye then this most ugly toad which is hard by. Though a toad I be and object of mans hate yet better am I then any reprobate.

References note

Yubraj Sharma, Spiritual energetics of homoeopathic materia medica, Wembley: Academy of light, 2006, vol. 2, p. 134

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Wellcome Collection 39064i

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