Confession [graphic]

Description

Title: Confession [graphic]
Creator: Spooner, Charles, 1720-1767, printmaker
Contributor: Myn, G. van der, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1775]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A white-bearded and tonsured cleric in a monastic habit gazes at a young woman wearing a long mantilla and a dress with a revealing decolletage
Description: Title etching below image.
Publication date conjectured from that of the print of which this one is a reduced copy.
Reduced copy, with different plate number and without imprint. Cf No. 3775 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Four lines of verse in 2 columns below title: "Here the fair humble penitent behold, to the good father all her sins unfold. He hears, absolves. But mark his leering eyes, and judge by them where his devotion lies."
Numbered in plate: 130.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 16 x 12 cm, on sheet 21 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Controversial literature
Early works to 1800
Mezzotints England London 1760-1770
Material: mezzotint and etching ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Confession
Monasticism and religious orders
Subjects: Catholic Church > Controversial literature > Early works to 1800
Catholic Church > Clergy
Confession
Monasticism and religious orders
England > London > 1760-1770

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