Cartoon on the despairing Father Peters, 1689, The Desperate Father Peters (title on object), Cartoon on Father Peters (Edward Petre), 1689. The Jesuit sits in despair on an ash heap, on the left sits a devil with a broken bellows, above it flies a another devil who offers Peters a noose and points to an image of Ahithophel who has hanged himself. In the air Fortune. In the caption 2 verses of 4 lines and the saying: Late repentance is rarely sincere., print, print maker: anonymous, Northern Netherlands, 1689 - 1690, paper, height, 254 mm × width, 186 mm

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