Title: sic itur ad astra scilicet
abstract: print shows scene in a bawdy house of pleasure frequented by father petre and other jesuits where they mingle and dine with such figures as: wantonness, avarice, sloth, fury, and vanity. Priests engage in lascivious acts and steal money from a dying person, a protestant minister is driven away from the door, a fox delivers a sermon from a pulpit, and jesuits help themselves to treasures in india. Physical description: 1 print: etching. Notes: title from item.;library has two impressions, an early and a later state, both cropped within plate mark.;forms part of: british cartoon collection (library of congress).;for related descriptive dialogue between eusebius and simplicius, with key to numbered figures (unnumbered in this print): see pc 1 - 1117 (c size).;attributed to romeyn de hooghe after william loggan.;william loggan f. & oxonia, anno 1681. Date: 1681.
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