[Confrontation between two clerics]

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[Confrontation between two clerics]
etching and engraving
image: 170 x 137 mm; plate mark: 215 x 145 mm; sheet: 281 x 194 mm
Peel 2663
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Possibly issued as an illustration for an unidentified publication.

Summary: 

Print shows two men in clerical costume standing in front of a crowd; the man right angrily accosts the other man while waving a document which reads "a letter from F---r"; the man at left recoils as he clutches a document in his own hand which reads "an answer..."; he is defended by a female figure wearing a peaked hat who stands directly behind him and raises her hand against the other man; on the ground below their feet lie papers reading "Heresy &c.," "Hypocrisy," "Schism" "Test acts," "Persecution," "Episcopacy," etc.

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