Iohnny MacCree at confession [graphic].

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Title
Iohnny MacCree at confession [graphic].
Alternative Title
Johnny MacCree at confession
Creator
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created
[29 March 1805]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pubd. March 29th, 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Abstract

"Pitt (r.), as a bare-footed monk with a large tonsure, sits in a high Gothic chair. Melville, in Highland dress and holding his feathered bonnet, kneels before him in profile to the right., saying, "Ye mun knaw - I have got into a little wee scrape, - and as ye knaw you and I ganarally rowd in the same boat - I want to ask your advice." Pitt looks agitated, and puts out his hands with a deprecating gesture; he says: "Dont implicate me I request - I that am compleatly Imacculate. Except laying a few trifling Taxes on Income, Births, Marriages, Burials, Houses, Windows, Tea, Coffee, Wine, Horses, Dogs, Carriages, Wills, Agreements, Servants, Hats, Receipts, News-Papers, Letters - Bricks, Tiles, Pepper, Salt, Cyder, Perry, Malt, Hops, - and such like iconsiderable things - , I dont think I ever did a paw - paw - action in all my Life. - however I'll endeavour to procure you absolution, for old acquaintance sake.""--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title from item.
Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Mounted to 49 x 30 cm.
Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
Provenance
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent
1 print : plate mark 35.3 x 24.2 cm, on sheet 38 x 28 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
805.03.29.01+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1805
Etchings England London 1805
Watermarks (Paper)
Material
etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic)
Monks
Subjects
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
Monks
England > 1805
England > London > 1805

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8506104
Object ID (OID)
10964687

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