Copy of satire in the form of a mock admission ticket; a masquerade consisting of debauched looking characters in costume; at left, 'a', 'a sacrifice to priapus', an altar to priapus decorated with ram's heads and antlers, in front of which the figure of time is stabbed by a bishop and a butcher, his blood pouring into a bowl held up by a monkey in a surplice; opposite at right, burning hearts on an altar to venus and cupid decorated with doves and wigs; at the back of the room, a painting of a bacchic subject, to either side shelves with jellies and cakes, labelled 'provactives', and two signs with the obscene pun 'supper below'; to either side, 'b', two 'lecherometers' in the form of barometers, at left labelled 'expectation hope hot desire extreem hot moist sudden cold', at right 'cool warm dry changable hot moist fixt'; above the design at centre, a clock with heidegger's face at top, the hour hand 'wit', the minute hand 'impertinence', the second hand 'nonsense', to either side a lolling unicorn and lion, stroking their tails between their legs. Pen and ink with grey wash. Date: between 1727 and 1837. Dimensions: Height: 208 mm (sheet); Width: 284 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: John James Heidegger. Collection: British Museum. Masquerade Ticket (BM Cc,2.79)
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