Political cartoon depicting a meeting between schoolmaster and satirist David James Dove and the devil with a mock epitaph accusing Dove of sexual immorality. In the top left, shows Dove with a human body, head of a bird, and spiked tail, bending on one knee with a paper under his arm that reads, "the Count[?] Medley." He says, "Thou great prince of darkness, assist me in my undertakings." In the right, the devil, with horns, wings, and a spiked tail, sits on a rock and replies, "Well done, thou good and faithfull [sic] servant." The epitaph below accuses Dove of sodomy, misogamy, sexual relations with a Black woman, "Black Fornication," and teaching his students immoral practices, such as "Whoring" and "Perjury." David James Dove came to Philadelphia from England in 1750 and taught at the Academy and College of Philadelphia [later University of Pennsylvania.] In 1761, he taught at the Germantown Academy., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of artist and content., First line: Here continues to rot..., In two columns., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., RVCDC
Creator
Hunt, Isaac, approximately 1742-1809
Date
[ca. 1764]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department poltical cartoons [1764] Con [959.F.69]
