EditorialTartuffe or the hypocrite deceiver, Interieur with a lady, Elmire and a gentleman, Tartuffe. In the background is a second man, Orgon, under a table. Scene from the play Tartuffe van Moli?re from 1664: the lady, Elmire, dressed in a frock with deep cle...
EditorialTop left, Humility, a crowned female figure standing on a unicorn. Top right, Pride, represented by Ahaziah falling from a tower. Bottom left, a sinner kneels before a draped and furnished altar. Bottom right, a hypocrite kneels before a bare altar and...
EditorialMr. William Dowton as Doctor Cantwell in "The Hypocrite" at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by Samuel de Wilde. From D. Terry's "British Theatrical Gallery," London, Henry Berth...
EditorialTop left, Humility, a crowned female figure standing on a unicorn. Top right, Pride, represented by Ahaziah falling from a tower. Bottom left, a sinner kneels before a draped and furnished altar. Bottom right, a hypocrite kneels before a bare altar and...
EditorialBeast with saint and hypocrite. La Somme le Roy. France (Paris); end of 13th century. (Whole folio) The Beast of the Apocalypse, trampling a saint and adored by a kneeling hypocrite. Image taken from La Somme le Roy. Originally published/produced in ...
EditorialAbove left; Humility, standing on a stag, holds a flowering branch and a medallion with a half-length female figure holding a palm and a book. Above right; Ahaziah, typifying Pride, falls from a battlemented building. Below left; a half-length figure o...
EditorialCostume of Madame Besuchet, nouveau riche. She wears a bonnet "a la frivole" crowned with a knot of ribbons, loose hair, a "hypocrite" dress that hides the shoulders but shows most of the bust. The holds up her skirt to reveal striped stockings and san...
EditorialMr. William Dowton as Doctor Cantwell in "The Hypocrite" at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by Samuel de Wilde. From D. Terry's "British Theatrical Gallery," London, Henry Berth...