"From the Chimney to the Chamber": Recovering a Jacobean Satirical Print
Abstrak
*Mulld Sake* has been described by the British Museum as "perhaps the most famous of all English prints" during the nineteenth century. Despite its reputation, however, the only certainty about this engraving is its production in London between 1616 and 1621, the active dates of its publisher Compton Holland. This article examines existing conjectures about *Mulld Sake* and the interpretation of its visual and verbal content, based around the long-standing but problematic assertion that its dandyish subject is the seventeenth-century chimney sweep and highwayman John Cottington. This article presents alternative, overlapping interpretations of the dynamic and complex engraving, revealing the figure as a symbolic representation of favouritism, scandal, and societal ambiguities at King James VI and I's London court.
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Helen Pierce
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- 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-29/hpierce
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