Allégorie sur la suppression et abolition totale de la Société se disant de Jésus

After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal (1759), their interdiction in France (1761–1764) and their expulsion from Spain, Parma and Naples (1767–1768), the Bourbon sovereigns and Portugal pressed the pope to close the case of the Jesuits once and for all. In 1773, Clement XIV eventually signed the brief Dominus ac Redemptor which suppressed the Society of Jesus. The engraving identifies the Catholic kingdoms by their coats of armour and shows them as warriors in their attack against the Society of Jesus depicted as the Great Whore of Babylon riding the apocalyptic beast.

Allégorie sur la suppression et abolition totale de la Société se disant de Jésus..., etching, France (?) 1773, unknown artist; Source: Bibliothèque de Port-Royal, Paris, Est. 356.