Paying tythes in kind [graphic].

Description

Title: Paying tythes in kind [graphic].
Alternative Title: Paying tithes in kind
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 January 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 24th Jany. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: A farmer releases a drove a bees from the beehive he delivers to a well-fed parson with a large wig. The clergyman and the couple behind him react with alarm as they swat at the bees. The parson's dog bites the farmer's smock. Another man enters the door (right) smiling
Description: Title engraved below image.
One line of text below image: Measter says, if he be obliged to vin'd the bees, he been't obliged to vin'd the hives an be rot to un.
One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls.
Numbered '147' in lower left of plate.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 25 cm, on sheet 24 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Beehives
Clergy
Farmers
Tithes
Subjects: Beehives
Clergy
Farmers
Tithes
England > 1795
England > London > 1795

Access: Public
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