Rostral extravaganzas [graphic].

Description

Title: Rostral extravaganzas [graphic].
Published / Created: Dec 3'd 1788.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published as the act directs for T.O. [...] Soho
Abstract: Six views of a clergymen in his pulpit, in varying attitudes, arranged in two rows, one above the other. In the top row, the captions below each figure, read starting at the left: Anatheman Mary-Ann Nathan; O Lard!; A tollerable collection. In the bottom row, the captions below each figure, read starting at the left: I myself declare; Very important; I mount, I fly to heaven
Description: Title etched at top of image.
"Dean Street" in imprint has been scratched from plate.
"Plate 1."--Lower right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.9 x 35 cm, on sheet 25 x 40 cm.
Watermark.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 22.9 x 35 cm, on sheet 25 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1788
Etchings England London 1788
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Posing
Subjects: Clergy
Posing
England > 1788
England > London > 1788

Access: Public
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