The monastic drone [graphic]

Description

Title: The monastic drone [graphic]
Creator: Houston, Richard, 1721?-1775, printmaker
Contributor: Le Clare, active approximately 1754?, artist.
Bowles, John, 1701-1779, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1754 and 1764]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Abstract: A young woman and a monk sit under two trees while a monk sews or embroiders a piece of fabric with floral motifs. They are being observed by a man hiding behind the trees. In the background on the left is a church
Description: Title from item.
Publication date inferred from publisher's address.
Two lines of verse on either side of title: Alass! [sic] how vain religion's awful [sic] name. The drone monastic blots it o'er with shame ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.5 x 25 cm, on sheet 39 x 28 cm
Language: English

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