The fawning priest and disappointed fool [graphic].

Description

Title: The fawning priest and disappointed fool [graphic].
Contributor: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher.
Published / Created: [1746?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Description: Title from item.
Publisher identified from address.
Printseller's announcement following imprint: ... where may be had veriety [sic] of political prints. Likewise old prints bought and sold. And Jappaning prints.
Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: Priest: To you, my lord, I thus confess, I've been a slave, without success ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Garden -- Clergy: Jesuits -- Popery -- Popes: Benedict XIV(?) -- Pictures amplifying subject: executions -- Satan -- Jacobites: Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-46 -- Rosaries.
Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Mounted.
Provenance: Alan Thomas for W.S. Lewis, Christie's October 21, 1965, lot 33; November 1965; Major Sir Charles Blackett Collection.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30 x 24.3 cm, on sheet 36 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1746
Etchings England London 1746
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Devil
Subjects: Clergy
Devil
England > 1746
England > London > 1746

Access: Public
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