Pope Embraced by Devil

A pen and brown ink drawing over graphite shows a bishop-like figure with a tall mitre and crozier, seated in pale robes and embraced by a gaunt, horned devil with bare arms. Grotesque masks cluster at the left, while shadowy onlookers and a barrel-like base fill the lower edges, all rendered in dense hatching.

Artist

Style of John Hamilton Mortimer

Date

n.d.

Medium

Pen and brown ink, over graphite, on grayish-cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on tan wove paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 1593 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection