Voyez le Compte rendu aux Chambres Assemblées des Colléges de Clermont-ferrant et Billom. Le 15. Juillet 1763.
[n.d., c.1763.]
Engraving. Sheet: 550 x 320mm (21¾ x 12½"). Creasing, bit messy on left. Repaired tear on right. Trimmed.
An engraving of a large painting confiscated from the Jesuit college in Billom following the closing of all Jesuit schools in France in 1762. The scene shows a 'Ship of Salvation' which saves those who attach themselves to it. Details of the ship are full of allegory. Around the ship those who do not climb aboard drown and are labelled heretics. In two boats approaching the ship are the King of France and the Pope a statement that these figures needed to be brought to Jesuit thinking if they wanted to be saved. This tableau was used as evidence againt the Jesuits in 1763.
[Ref: 42643] £420.00
Engraving. Sheet: 550 x 320mm (21¾ x 12½"). Creasing, bit messy on left. Repaired tear on right. Trimmed.
An engraving of a large painting confiscated from the Jesuit college in Billom following the closing of all Jesuit schools in France in 1762. The scene shows a 'Ship of Salvation' which saves those who attach themselves to it. Details of the ship are full of allegory. Around the ship those who do not climb aboard drown and are labelled heretics. In two boats approaching the ship are the King of France and the Pope a statement that these figures needed to be brought to Jesuit thinking if they wanted to be saved. This tableau was used as evidence againt the Jesuits in 1763.
[Ref: 42643] £420.00