Titus Oates, 1649-1705 – Historic Print
![Titus Oates, 1649-1705, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3c/3cdc0bf64fc7-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures Titus Oates, 1649-1705 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Titus Oates, 1649-1705
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Titus Oates, the English clergyman shown in this engraving, is remembered chiefly as the man who invented the so-called Popish Plot in 1678, a fabricated claim of a Catholic conspiracy against Charles II that led to the execution of many innocent people. His lies eventually unraveled, and in 1685 he was convicted of perjury, flogged, pilloried, and imprisoned, remaining in custody until 1689. The print itself is undated, and its caption card's partial note about prisons may refer to his confinement, so the image is best read as a later record of a man whose notoriety outlasted his power.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Prisons and... |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 876 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157076 |
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