The curate [graphic].

Description

Title: The curate [graphic].
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Decr. 1, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Abstract: "One of a set of five, [Possibly there is a missing print: ? 'The Rector'] see BMSats 7778-81. A curate stands in profile to the right at a reading-desk in a country church, reading from a large book on which both hands are placed. He wears a surplice over spurred jack-boots. Behind him (left) steps ascend to the pulpit, below (right) the clerk in his box leans back asleep. Another sleeping man leans against the clerk's box. In the background is seen the end of a gallery in which six persons are seated."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
After Woodward. Cf. British Museum catalogue.
Two lines of verse from Shakespeare's As you like it below image: ------ and first, -- the curate, ... .
Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: curates -- Interiors: churches -- Churches: pulpits -- Sleeping churchgoers -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's As you like it, ii, 7, 143.
Provenance: Suckling ; Nov. 1958.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 36.1 x 25.5 cm, on sheet 43 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1790
Aquatints England London 1790
Etchings England London 1790
Material: aquatint & etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1790
England > London > 1790

Access: Public
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