The conspirators [graphic].

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Title: The conspirators [graphic].
Contributor: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 3 August 1775]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: Nocturnal scene of a churchyard, with a raven perched in a large tree. Below him a sexton with his shovel points towards the left, while glancing back towards a corpulent clergyman, a lawyer holding a candelabra and a shield depicting skull and bones, and a doctor with his gold-headed cane and vial
Description: Title engraved below image.
Numbered in plate: 326.
Bottom edge of image retouched in the plate with drypoint.
Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, volume 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles."
Verse in plate: Near the church-yard grim Death's purveyors see, with emblems fit a close connected three! One shows a phial, and the other two look their assent, as if they'd say t'will do: The sexton pleas'd stands ready to attend, points to the grave and eyes his greatest friend. Th'ill boding raven seems to croak aloud, swallow the dose, and that bespeaks your shroud.
Publication date erased from this copy of the print.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.2 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 40 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Satires (Visual works) England 1775
Mezzotints England London 1775
Material: mezzotint ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Professions
Gravedigging
Clergy
Lawyers
Physicians
Ravens
Clothing & dress
Cemeteries
Subjects: Professions > Early works to 1800
Gravedigging
Clergy
Lawyers
Physicians
Ravens
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Cemeteries
England > 1775
England > London > 1775

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