Chancellors taught law & bishops divinity [graphic].

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Title: Chancellors taught law & bishops divinity [graphic].
Alternative Title: Chancellors taught law and bishops divinity
Creator: Collings, Samuel, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [18 June 1789]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published June 18, 1789, by S.W. Fores, No. 23 Piccadilly
Description: Title from caption etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Debates: Stanhope, House of Lords, June 9, 1789 -- Bills: defeated bill for relieving members of the Church of England, June 9, 1789 -- Furniture: chairs -- Coronets -- Fool's cap -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Parody of a schoolroom -- Clergy: bishops -- Lawyers: chancellors -- Wheelbarrows -- Spades -- Pick-axes.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24 x 36 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1789
Etchings England London 1789
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
Subjects: Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1789
England > London > 1789

Access: Public
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