The rector [graphic].

Description

Title: The rector [graphic].
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Decr. 1, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Abstract: A rotund rector with a caricatured, grinning face sits at his dinner table in his comfortable upholstered arm chair. He gestures to his manservant, who wears an equally pleased look on his face, to place the roasted pig on the table. A dog sits at the rector's feet, looking up expectedly
Description: Title engraved above image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 40 x 28 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 362 x 251 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Aquatints England London 1791
Material: aquatint with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Dogs
Eating & drinking
Servants
Swine
Tableware
Tithes
Subjects: England > 1791
England > London > 1791
Clergy
Dogs
Eating & drinking
Servants
Swine
Tableware
Tithes

Access: Public
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