1-624-686 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Satan in all his Glory; - or Peter Pindar crouching to the devil, sketch'd from the peep-hole at scalegill', 1792. 'To the worthy inhabitants of Cumberland and this impartial representation of the virtues of his infernal majesty is respectfully dedicated.' Cruel landowner James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale (1726-1802) is caricatured as Satan from Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. On the left is 'Peter Pindar', the satirical poet James Wolcot (1738-1819) who had criticised the Earl. Lowther's lawyer (right), has snakes for legs, like the figure of Sin in the poem. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).