Avarice Gallery

Dominis, (1560-1624), 1830. Creator: Unknown

Dominis, (1560-1624), 1830. Marco Antonio de Dominis (1560-1624) Dalmatian ecclesiastic, Catholic archbishop, adjudged heretic of the Catholic Faith for attacks on the papacy, he lost friends to avarice. Man of science, the first to develop the theory of the rainbow. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]

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Moses descends from Mount Siniai with the Ten Commandments

Moses descends from Mount Siniai with the Ten Commandments. Found in the Collection of Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam

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Shakespeare sacrificed, or the offering to avarice, 1789.Artist: James Gillray

Shakespeare sacrificed, or the offering to avarice, 1789. Publisher John Boydell commissioned paintings illustrating subjects from Shakespeare's plays. His scheme to sell engravings made after the pictures is criticised here. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905)

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