- Title:
- Presages of the Millenium
- Date:
- 1795
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 × 14 13/16 inches (33 × 37.6 cm), Image: 11 5/8 × 14 1/8 inches (29.6 × 35.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left inside image: "J.s G.y Desn et fecit _ Pubd June 4th 1795 by H Humphrey No27 NewBond Street"; lower center below image: "Presages of the MILLENIUM; with The Destruction of the Faithful, as Revealed to R:Brothers, the Prophet, & attested by M.B.Hallhead Esq | 'Amd e'er the Last Days begain, I looked & behold, a White Horse, & his Name who sat yhon was Death; & Hell followed after him; & Power was given unto him to kill with the | 'Sword, & with Famine, & with Death; and I saw under him the Souls of the Multitude, those who were destroy'd for maintaing the word of Truth, and & for the Testimony__"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.916
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- Bible | caricature | clouds | crown | death | destruction | faith | famine | fear | fire | fish | galloping | grotesques | hell | herds | historical subject | hoards | horse (animal) | humor | killing | legislation | men | meteorology | monsters | nude | parody | peace | pigs | power | riding | satire | science | scrolls | seamen | serpents | souls | storm | sword | swords | testimony | truth | uniforms | wings
- Associated People:
- Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister
Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician
George IV (1762–1830), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover
demons
Stanhope, Charles, third earl of Harrington (1753–1829), army officer - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43734
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