A pillar of the Church with it's proper capital. [graphic]

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Title: A pillar of the Church with it's proper capital. [graphic]
Creator: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 April 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, Strand, April 1st, 1772, accor. to act
Abstract: "A man, stout and elderly, dressed as a bishop stands facing three-quarter to left. His right hand holds a tasselled mortar-board. He wears a silk gown, lawn sleeves, a pair of bands and an enormous wig. At the top of the plate is engraved, "Bishop of Eider Down"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram. M. Darly for Mary Darly or Matthew (or Matthias) Darly the printmaker? See British Museum catalogue.
For later state with additional numbering, see no. 5003 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 5.
Text above image: Bishop of Eider Down.
Plate numbered "23" in upper right corner.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.9 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 19.0 x 13.4 cm
Edition: [State without volume number].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Traill, James, -1783
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Clergy
Dandies
British
Wigs
Subjects: Traill, James, -1783 > Caricatures and cartoons
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Clergy
Dandies > British
Wigs
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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