Gilbert Burnet, Scottish philosopher and historian

Caricature of Gilbert Burnet, Scottish philosopher and historian, author and poet, Bishop of Salisbury, 1643-1715. One leg in a tub, one in a pulpit, with six satirical English verses. Mitres, orb, crown and Christian paraphernalia falling from a sack at left. Half Surplice, cloake, half Priest, half Puritan. Copperplate engraving from Samuel Woodburn's Gallery of Rare Portraits Consisting of Original Plates, George Jones, 102 St Martin's Lane, London, 1816

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