A divine in his glory!! [graphic]

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Title: A divine in his glory!! [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: May 28, 1799.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Abstract: A fat parson sits on a settee with a young courtesan on each knee
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on sides.
Two lines of verse below title: The business of his church he did by proxy and loved all doxies but the ortho-doxy.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. Cf. For a later copy, see no. 10671, v. 8.
Watermark: T Edmonds 181[...].
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Watermarks (Paper) T Edmonds
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Courtesans
Obesity
Subjects: Clergy
Courtesans
Obesity
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
T Edmonds

Access: Public
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