Summary[
edit] The Art and Mystery of Printing Emblematically Displayed. Title: The Art and Mystery of Printing Emblematically Displayed. Description: English: Satirical illustration of a printing house in three parts, from the Grub Street Journal, No. 147, 26 October 1732; all those portrayed have the heads of animals. On the left, a compositor with the head of an ass stands "at case" setting up type, behind him a form of the Grub Street Journal lies on a desk. In the centre a group of printers work at a press, one with the head of a greyhound wearing a wig kicks a form of the Craftsman, a copy of Fog's Journal lies on the press, the master-printer, Janus faced, looks on, an owl is perched on top of the press and a devil stands behind. On the right, a devil is hanging printed sheets on lines stretched across a room; at the end of his stick is a sheet lettered, "Cases of Impotency" and on the lines sheets from political, official and obscene publications: Applebee's Journal, Read's Journal, the London Journal, the Universal Spectator, the Weekly Register ("1 1/2d"), Onania, Rochester's Poems, the Manual of Devotion and the Session Paper; a pile of copies of the Free Briton rests on a stool, and a bundle of the Examiner on the floor; the devil treads on the Hyp Doctor. Etching. Depicted people: Representation of: Devil. Date: 1732date QS:P571,+1732-00-00T00:00:00Z/9. Medium: paper. Dimensions: Height: 112 millimetres (trimmed to image) Width: 221 millimetres (trimmed to image). Collection:
British Museum .
. Native name: British Museum. Location:
London. Coordinates:
51° 31′ 10″ N, 0° 07′ 37″ W . Established: 1753. Web page:
www.britishmuseum.org. Authority control:
:
Q6373 VIAF:
134857252 ISNI:
0000 0001 2342 8817 ULAN:
500125180 LCCN:
n79107735 NLA:
35022119 WorldCat. institution QS:P195,Q6373. Current location: Prints and Drawings. Accession number: 1868,0808.10094. Source/Photographer:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-10094. Permission(
Reusing this file): © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Other versions:
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